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City manager: Bellbrook to notify all water customers after EPA reporting error; PFAS samples sent to lab
Summary
City Manager Rob told council that a timing issue led to the EPA inventory being submitted partially, triggering a required direct notification to roughly 4,000 water customers; he said there are no known lead service lines and PFAS samples have been sent to labs for testing.
City Manager Rob told the Bellbrook City Council on June 23 that an inventory required by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency was submitted partially while the city awaited clarification from the EPA, and that the city must now send a direct mailing to every water customer to explain the reporting status.
"It was not quite clear that each and every single of the 4,000 or so addresses needed to be rather than just 1 notice," Rob said. He told council the partial submission and the timing of fixes meant the official deadline passed before the city could finalize the full report. "As a result of that, we will be required to notify every single water customer that the inventory was not submitted. However, it was. It just was submitted partially and then resubmitted after we were waiting on what needed to be corrected."
Rob said the inventory has "0 effect" on the water system itself. He told council the city has no known lead service lines in its distribution mains, though private service lines at individual properties could contain lead. "It was merely a reporting, and a spreadsheet matrix, timing issue," he said, and added that the city will post notices on social media as well as mail letters to avoid undue alarm.
Rob also briefed council that PFAS testing samples have been taken and sent to laboratories; results timing was not specified.
Council members discussed outreach and asked the manager to place the explanation on the city's social media channels to reduce phone calls and confusion. Rob said the city will incur the cost of mailing the required notices and will try to avoid causing concern among residents.
