WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:03.040 Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's 2 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.280 time now for City matters right here on K one, 3 00:00:05.320 --> 00:00:06.919 the one you trust. If it matters to you, it 4 00:00:06.960 --> 00:00:11.560 matters to the city. It's gonna be fun. 5 00:00:12.320 --> 00:00:15.000 That's caught intro there. Thank you about I appreciate it. 6 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:18.920 How you doing, Mike Bailey, I'm great, I'm great. Had 7 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:21.440 we had we all had a busy weekend. Oh yeah, 8 00:00:21.440 --> 00:00:25.239 we're great. It's good. Happened Monday. All right, what's the latest, brother? 9 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:30.640 So latest before we actually dip into the meat of 10 00:00:30.679 --> 00:00:33.119 the program, which is sitting to my right named Terry Laurdson, 11 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:36.200 I got a couple of things, So Kerry meet Laurence. 12 00:00:37.479 --> 00:00:42.039 Yet he'll he'll be most of the program this morning, 13 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:42.560 of course. 14 00:00:42.640 --> 00:00:45.560 But so we want to start out just real quick 15 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:49.719 and congratulate Senator Daniels. Actually, I believe it was last 16 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:54.000 week she received the twenty twenty five bill Library Bill 17 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:58.240 Lowry Library Champion Award. So this is issued by the 18 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:03.719 Oklahoma Department of Libraries, and this was essentially for her 19 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:06.640 work in the legislature championing library. So I just want 20 00:01:06.680 --> 00:01:08.920 to take a moment and thank her for that. That 21 00:01:09.120 --> 00:01:13.120 award was given to her at a library at the 22 00:01:13.159 --> 00:01:16.079 library board meeting, so we got to be there for 23 00:01:16.120 --> 00:01:19.400 that and to congratulate her and to welcome her, but 24 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:21.719 we wanted to wanted to give her a quick shout 25 00:01:21.719 --> 00:01:25.200 out on the radio as well. And so last week 26 00:01:25.959 --> 00:01:29.280 was actually a council meeting and it was a there 27 00:01:29.319 --> 00:01:31.760 wasn't wasn't a whole lot happening. It was just boring 28 00:01:31.799 --> 00:01:34.799 city business, which is how we prefer it, but really 29 00:01:34.879 --> 00:01:38.680 just city business. The only thing really of note from 30 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.159 that council meeting was that we did make sort of 31 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:45.079 a quiet announcement that the name of the golf course 32 00:01:45.079 --> 00:01:49.719 will be changing. It has been Adams Municipal Golf Club 33 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:53.239 or course for a very long time, and so the 34 00:01:53.920 --> 00:01:58.799 along with our reopening of the course that involves changing 35 00:01:58.799 --> 00:02:02.040 our programs. We've got a new golf pro d Roadman 36 00:02:02.079 --> 00:02:05.879 who we've introduced everybody to d has has some great 37 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:09.280 ideas for the golf course. But along with that, we 38 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:11.240 wanted to shift the. 39 00:02:11.159 --> 00:02:12.199 Brand at the golf course. 40 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:15.719 So the grand reopening the golf course, we also wanted 41 00:02:15.759 --> 00:02:19.439 to honor the essentially the founder of the golf course. 42 00:02:19.520 --> 00:02:22.680 Of course, for anybody who knows that's Boots Adams. Boots 43 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:26.479 Adams donated the land and made a significant monetary contribution 44 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:28.759 to actually create. 45 00:02:28.439 --> 00:02:29.280 Adams Golf Course. 46 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:32.039 So it was Bartlesville's first and at that time only 47 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.520 municipal course and still our only municipal course, but that 48 00:02:35.639 --> 00:02:38.960 started with Boots, so we wanted to honor him, and 49 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:41.360 so the first thing that we did was to come 50 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.639 up with a name that that honored Boots, and then 51 00:02:44.680 --> 00:02:48.560 we invited his two sons that are still here in 52 00:02:48.599 --> 00:02:52.199 the area, Kenneth and Stephen talk to them about the 53 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:55.400 idea and they absolutely loved it. So we were glad 54 00:02:55.400 --> 00:02:59.520 for their support and so that that course will officially. 55 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:00.960 Be known as Boo Boots Hollow. 56 00:03:01.439 --> 00:03:04.080 And so we'll be switching from Adams Municipal to Boots 57 00:03:04.080 --> 00:03:07.120 Hollow here in the near future. So by the time 58 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.879 we do our reopening, we will have a completely new brand. 59 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:14.759 So we're excited that golf course. We're expecting there. 60 00:03:14.599 --> 00:03:18.400 To be an opening in it. 61 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:21.159 I don't have the exact dates on everything, but it'll 62 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:23.439 be towards the end of August, so keep an eye 63 00:03:23.479 --> 00:03:25.240 out for all of that. We'll have a community day, 64 00:03:25.800 --> 00:03:29.479 the first community Day or the Community Day will allow 65 00:03:29.560 --> 00:03:30.960 people to bring their putters. 66 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:31.719 We won't be. 67 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:33.319 Able to play the course that day, but we'll let 68 00:03:33.360 --> 00:03:35.319 you pudd on the new greens if you want to 69 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.120 come out and see what they see, what they look like, 70 00:03:37.240 --> 00:03:41.120 it is significantly different. And then we will have a 71 00:03:41.159 --> 00:03:46.199 soft opening with limited tea times, followed by our first tournament, 72 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:50.199 so we'll have a grand opening tournament and then it'll 73 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.080 be business as usual out of the golf course. So 74 00:03:52.159 --> 00:03:54.319 looking forward to getting that open. I know that everybody 75 00:03:54.319 --> 00:03:57.120 who plays golf, trust me, I've heard from you. I 76 00:03:57.120 --> 00:03:58.759 know you're ready to get it open too. They're all 77 00:03:58.840 --> 00:04:03.439 very excited about it. So with that, let's go ahead 78 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:05.960 and jump to what I'm sure anybody who's listening to 79 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.479 the program wants to know more about. Over the weekend, 80 00:04:10.280 --> 00:04:14.280 there was a we received an unfortunate announcement from ODEQ 81 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:17.680 and they placed the city of Artlesville's water supply on 82 00:04:17.720 --> 00:04:20.319 a boil or. And I've got Terry Lorence in here 83 00:04:20.360 --> 00:04:23.439 with me so that we can discuss this more. But 84 00:04:24.240 --> 00:04:29.279 essentially there were several key components to that. The primary 85 00:04:29.439 --> 00:04:31.920 is is that Terry, we test our system, is it monthly? 86 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:36.720 Well, we test truly tested daily, but we plant daily. 87 00:04:36.839 --> 00:04:42.399 But right, so, yeah, let me I'll die right in. 88 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:43.319 He knows how he. 89 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:44.959 Wants to say this, and he's not gonna let me 90 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:46.040 readirect any of it. 91 00:04:46.160 --> 00:04:48.399 So I'm just gonna shut up to No, that's unusual. 92 00:04:49.160 --> 00:04:52.839 Well, so to answer your monitoring question, so we monitor 93 00:04:53.160 --> 00:04:57.959 the plant not just daily but hourly minute. We have 94 00:04:58.639 --> 00:05:02.920 equipment that monitors though those treatment levels. We monitor the 95 00:05:02.959 --> 00:05:07.680 distribution system daily for chlorine residual, so we check in 96 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.279 different parts to monitor for chlorine residual and then monthly 97 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:15.120 we perform bacterio logical tests or we pull samples. We 98 00:05:15.199 --> 00:05:18.639 send that to an independent labor laboratory to run those tests. 99 00:05:19.279 --> 00:05:22.720 We're required to do forty a month at various locations 100 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.920 within the system really are remote parts of the system. 101 00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:28.480 Because of it's good at the furthest point, then it's 102 00:05:28.519 --> 00:05:31.600 good everywhere else. So we do those ten a week. 103 00:05:31.759 --> 00:05:35.959 So we do it all the time, daily and then 104 00:05:36.480 --> 00:05:43.040 weekly for the bacterio logical assessments. And so last Wednesday 105 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.240 we pulled samples for the last ten of the month, 106 00:05:46.759 --> 00:05:49.600 and one of those samples at twenty first in Dewey 107 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.439 came back positive for E. 108 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:51.920 Coli. 109 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:56.839 And so that We were made aware of those results 110 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:02.040 on Thursday afternoon. Friday evening, we talked with the Department 111 00:06:02.079 --> 00:06:04.720 of our Mont Quality. That's the first time we've ever 112 00:06:04.759 --> 00:06:09.079 had in E. Coli tests positive, and so we sought 113 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:10.439 guidance from them on. 114 00:06:10.360 --> 00:06:11.399 What do we need to do. 115 00:06:11.399 --> 00:06:14.639 Do we need to do an immediate boil order, what's 116 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.160 the protocol and what's the process. We were instructed to 117 00:06:18.800 --> 00:06:22.040 hold off on anything to resample that site as well 118 00:06:22.079 --> 00:06:25.199 as sites adjacent to that site, send that into the 119 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:27.399 independent lab, get the results, and we'll go from there. 120 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:31.439 So we did that Saturday morning. We were made aware 121 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:34.360 of the results of that resampling, which the original site 122 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.199 that tested positive for E. Coli tested negative for E. Coli, 123 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.480 but it still had the color form bacteria, which is 124 00:06:41.519 --> 00:06:45.079 an indicator bacteria harmless to us, but it's an indicator 125 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.920 of bactroological growth in your system. But the adjacent sites 126 00:06:48.920 --> 00:06:53.399 that we tested were negative for both color form and E. Coli. 127 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:55.759 So at the time. 128 00:06:55.639 --> 00:07:00.199 We issued we received those results. We received the. 129 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.879 Call right around noon or almost right around one from 130 00:07:03.920 --> 00:07:07.480 the ODEQ about the results of that test, and we 131 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:09.120 were informed that we were going to be put on 132 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:10.519 a mandatory boiler order. 133 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:11.240 Uh. 134 00:07:11.279 --> 00:07:14.120 And then I think by one thirty they placed it 135 00:07:14.199 --> 00:07:17.079 on the boil order, and I think we were able 136 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:19.439 to get a press release that had some more context 137 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.800 and information regarding that what happened later that afternoon, But 138 00:07:23.879 --> 00:07:26.959 that started the kind of the whilwind of activity that 139 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:31.759 we experienced over the weekend. But when we received. 140 00:07:31.399 --> 00:07:33.920 That first positive test for E. 141 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:37.759 Coli, we immediately began fleshing that part of the system. 142 00:07:38.240 --> 00:07:40.240 I can't stress enough that no other part of the 143 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:43.000 system tests positive for E. Coli, for any kind of 144 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:44.240 color form bacteria. 145 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:45.000 Uh. 146 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.319 There were no anomalies at the plant. The plant was 147 00:07:47.360 --> 00:07:52.639 producing safe water, continued to produce safe water throughout this process. 148 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:59.480 So that's in our press release. I put in there 149 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.240 that I felt that it was an anomaly with the 150 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:04.879 sample site, right because the water was testing well everywhere 151 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:09.519 else except that one specific location. But with the boiler 152 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:12.360 order mandate and the notice that equal wise in your 153 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:16.759 water system, I think the public interpreted that that every 154 00:08:16.839 --> 00:08:20.199 drop of water was contaminated, there was no water safe 155 00:08:20.199 --> 00:08:24.519 to drink, to do anything with, which obviously was not true. 156 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:25.920 Essentially, is the. 157 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:29.160 Way the ODEQ protocol works is that they air on 158 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:32.639 the side of caution, and so they notify everyone who 159 00:08:32.679 --> 00:08:36.039 could be exposed, and in this instance, we don't believe 160 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:38.039 that anyone truly was exposed. 161 00:08:38.039 --> 00:08:39.759 We believe it was an anomaly with that site. 162 00:08:39.840 --> 00:08:44.960 However, regardless of that ODEQ, they out of an abundance 163 00:08:44.960 --> 00:08:48.039 of caution, they notify everybody who not just on our 164 00:08:48.080 --> 00:08:50.799 system directly, but everybody we may serve, even though it 165 00:08:50.879 --> 00:08:52.919 might take two three days for that water to even 166 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.840 reach them, assuming it's coming from the same sort. 167 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:59.200 Yeah, so on Saturday we were able to get in 168 00:08:59.279 --> 00:09:02.559 touch with the decisions makers at the ODQ to find 169 00:09:02.559 --> 00:09:04.759 out what we needed to do to get off the 170 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:07.679 boil order. So we had a plan of attack from then. 171 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:12.159 So we continued to flush that area concern and then 172 00:09:12.200 --> 00:09:16.120 we re sampled that specific location adjacent to that area, 173 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.320 and then throughout the entire distribution system to represent all 174 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:25.480 the water within our system. So we sent those samples 175 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.159 Saturday evening to the lab as a twenty four hour test. 176 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:32.080 That's just the way the test goes. We were made 177 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:36.639 at the results yesterday at eight pm. As far as 178 00:09:36.639 --> 00:09:40.559 everything tested negative, no coliform, no E Coli in any 179 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:45.360 location that was sampled or tested yesterday, and so the 180 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:49.639 state then released or lifted the boil order mandate, and 181 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.480 so that's where we are today. There's a lot of 182 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:55.519 work left for us to do, certainly to understand what 183 00:09:55.759 --> 00:09:59.679 happened at that site. In essence, there's six ways that 184 00:09:59.759 --> 00:10:02.120 eq Coli can be introduced into your system. And so 185 00:10:02.519 --> 00:10:05.080 if you're not familiar with E. Coli, that has as 186 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:08.759 a bacteria, but its basis is in human or animal waste. 187 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:12.600 So you can either have a catastrophic failure at the 188 00:10:12.600 --> 00:10:16.320 water plant where something is not treating or working disinfectant wise, 189 00:10:16.879 --> 00:10:19.200 you can have a break and a water main that 190 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.200 you depressure eye to fix it, but something crawls in 191 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:26.240 and dies in there. You can have a sampling air 192 00:10:26.360 --> 00:10:30.519 where the person taking the sample contaminates it. You can 193 00:10:30.559 --> 00:10:32.960 have a lab air where it's contaminated at the lab. 194 00:10:34.279 --> 00:10:37.759 You can have an anomaly at the sample site. So 195 00:10:39.559 --> 00:10:41.679 kind of going through the checklist, there was nothing that 196 00:10:41.960 --> 00:10:45.039 was abnormal with the plant. Everything was working perfect and 197 00:10:45.240 --> 00:10:48.000 is exactly how it should. There was no water main 198 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:53.080 breaks in that area at all within the last six months, 199 00:10:53.480 --> 00:10:55.519 so there's nothing that could have crawled in and died. 200 00:10:57.080 --> 00:10:59.480 The person that we have pulling the samples is well trained, 201 00:10:59.679 --> 00:11:03.519 very very familiar with that process. So I have no 202 00:11:03.639 --> 00:11:07.159 doubt that that contamination wasn't from them. The lab is 203 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:10.240 a state certified lab to perform these type of tests. 204 00:11:10.240 --> 00:11:12.559 They have all kinds of protocol and procedures in place 205 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:16.120 to prevent that. So I seriously doubt that that occurred 206 00:11:16.120 --> 00:11:20.279 from the lab. And so that left the sample site 207 00:11:21.240 --> 00:11:26.519 if that was the potential point of where the equal 208 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:29.039 I came in. Now, the sample site is in essence 209 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:30.919 of frost free hydrant is what it is. So if 210 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:33.279 you're familiar with the frost free hydrant, it has a 211 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.320 vertical standpipe about three feet long. 212 00:11:35.879 --> 00:11:37.600 The valve that operates to let. 213 00:11:37.480 --> 00:11:39.720 Water come out of the spicket is down below the 214 00:11:39.720 --> 00:11:43.600 ground roughly three feet But in that stand pipe, above 215 00:11:43.639 --> 00:11:47.639 the valve that opens and closes that that spicket is 216 00:11:47.679 --> 00:11:52.399 a weephole, a drain hole. And so we have speculated 217 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:54.600 this is all speculation at this point. We have nothing 218 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:59.039 to confirm it as of today. But my speculation is 219 00:11:59.080 --> 00:12:02.039 that something has had crawled up into that we pull 220 00:12:02.440 --> 00:12:04.720 and died. It could be an earthworm, it could be 221 00:12:04.799 --> 00:12:07.480 a snake, it could be something else. Whatever the case 222 00:12:07.519 --> 00:12:10.919 may be ground petration, should be groundwater penetration, who knows 223 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:15.279 what that is. But all the tests revealed that the 224 00:12:15.320 --> 00:12:18.960 only issue was at that specific sample site. If you 225 00:12:19.039 --> 00:12:21.519 have a problem with the water at one location, you're 226 00:12:21.559 --> 00:12:23.559 going to have a problem with the water adjacent to 227 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.840 that location, and even potentially further on. We never found that, 228 00:12:27.279 --> 00:12:30.399 never saw that in any of our testing, and so 229 00:12:30.679 --> 00:12:33.159 even to this day, we have not seen that. We 230 00:12:33.200 --> 00:12:35.519 are going to continue to monitor this area very closely, 231 00:12:36.399 --> 00:12:39.879 looking for different indicators, will run an assortment of tests 232 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:43.720 on it to see bacterologically what's going on with it. 233 00:12:44.519 --> 00:12:47.600 But at this point we're going to go through everything 234 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:50.159 very thoroughly. The plant, what was going on exactly with 235 00:12:50.200 --> 00:12:53.159 the plant, the protocol, you know, all those things. We 236 00:12:53.240 --> 00:12:55.360 know there's no water main break, so that one is 237 00:12:55.840 --> 00:12:58.440 obviously crossed off the list. We will get with the 238 00:12:58.519 --> 00:13:00.840 lab to see what their protocols are in place to 239 00:13:01.519 --> 00:13:04.919 you know, to mitigate or to prevent a contamination. But 240 00:13:05.000 --> 00:13:08.720 we'll go through all those and very very granually to 241 00:13:08.759 --> 00:13:14.120 see exactly what happened to one to hopefully identify what happened. 242 00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:16.639 But the second thing is if there's a deficiency somewhere 243 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:19.519 we certainly need to correct that so it never ever 244 00:13:19.600 --> 00:13:22.159 happens again. So that's uh, you know, we take the 245 00:13:22.240 --> 00:13:26.840 safety of our water very seriously. I drink it, my 246 00:13:26.919 --> 00:13:30.080 family drinks it, my kids drink it. Everybody at the 247 00:13:30.080 --> 00:13:33.120 water plant they drink it, their family, their kids, and 248 00:13:33.159 --> 00:13:36.360 so on and so forth, and so the safety of 249 00:13:36.360 --> 00:13:38.879 the water is utmost important to us, and so. 250 00:13:39.039 --> 00:13:40.639 That that is paramount. 251 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:41.480 And that's paramount. 252 00:13:41.519 --> 00:13:43.639 So it's safety in the safety of the water absolutely. 253 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:47.080 So it's this was something that's never happened. It is 254 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.360 unbelievably rare for a system to be working very well 255 00:13:51.399 --> 00:13:52.960 with no anomalies and all of a sudden you get 256 00:13:52.960 --> 00:13:57.279 an e coalie. So that's you know, I couldn't express 257 00:13:57.360 --> 00:14:02.639 enough how this is such a an anomaly to see this. 258 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:05.559 But in any event, where we went through it, we're 259 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.679 thankful obviously to the Department of Armor Quality with their 260 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:11.559 efforts to help us get off the boil order as 261 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.960 quickly as we did. We want to I want to 262 00:14:14.960 --> 00:14:18.600 personally thank Kelly Williams and Kelsey Walker. They were our 263 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.279 eyes and ears with social media. 264 00:14:20.559 --> 00:14:22.919 Their weekend was over about two o'clock on Saturday. 265 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:27.360 Yeah, so they put together the press releases, the different FAQs, 266 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:32.960 and and they kind of wage the information battle on 267 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:37.759 social media. So their efforts were fantastic over this incident. 268 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:41.080 But our work is just beginning on it, and so 269 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:47.000 we will work very expeditiously, but you know, very strategically 270 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:50.080 as well, to make sure that we're covering all the bases, 271 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.759 to to identify what was the source of it, and 272 00:14:53.799 --> 00:14:56.360 then to make corrections if if if needed. 273 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:59.960 So and Terry the a few questions that I know 274 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:02.080 that I've received you and I've discussed these, but I 275 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:05.360 think it's worth sharing with the public. So we're dealing 276 00:15:05.399 --> 00:15:09.519 really with odeq's protocols, and so when certain things happen, 277 00:15:09.559 --> 00:15:11.679 it triggers other things, and those are designed that way 278 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:15.840 for a reason, again with public safety in mind, and 279 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:17.080 so they are always. 280 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.399 Going to air on the side of caution. 281 00:15:18.639 --> 00:15:21.200 So when we were dealing with this, of course it 282 00:15:21.240 --> 00:15:23.759 was detected at one site out of forty that we 283 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:28.000 routinely sample, and it did test positive for E. 284 00:15:28.120 --> 00:15:29.240 Coli at one time. 285 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:32.039 However, there was no other test for ecolon nowhere else 286 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.720 in the system or at that location, again, which was 287 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:37.799 part of Again I think we're dealing with a protocol 288 00:15:37.799 --> 00:15:40.080 at ODQ, but it surprised us a little bit, never 289 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:44.399 having gone through this. It detected E coli, and they 290 00:15:44.440 --> 00:15:47.559 instructed us to resample. When we did resample, it didn't 291 00:15:47.600 --> 00:15:50.519 test positive for E. Coli, but tested positive for the 292 00:15:51.200 --> 00:15:54.080 color form, which is sort of a precursor. And so 293 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.080 normally caliform does not trigger anything, but in this instance 294 00:15:58.200 --> 00:15:59.639 it did trigger the boil. 295 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.159 Order because there was a positive E. Coli test. The 296 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:03.720 past is how we understand it. 297 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:06.639 So we were this was certainly new to us, which 298 00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:08.240 is a good thing that it's new to us. You know, 299 00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.279 this is certainly not something you want to have happened 300 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:15.399 in your system. So in your history here has this 301 00:16:15.440 --> 00:16:16.039 ever happened? 302 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.360 Never? Never, never, We've never had a single positive test. 303 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:23.480 For ecoli never, you're aware, to my knowledge. So, and 304 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:28.279 even testing positive for caliform is a rare incidence. You know, 305 00:16:28.320 --> 00:16:32.320 we take six hundred tests over a year. If we 306 00:16:32.399 --> 00:16:37.639 have one test positive for caliform, that's an exception. But 307 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:41.720 with the positive test for E. Coli, the what the 308 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:46.600 state terms a confirmation test, that next sample round for 309 00:16:46.679 --> 00:16:51.159 a call ofform that's what validated in or triggered the 310 00:16:51.159 --> 00:16:52.759 boil yet the boilerer. 311 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:55.600 And it did which I'm sure again dealing with their protocols, 312 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.799 the ODQ has a certain amount of time then to 313 00:16:57.919 --> 00:17:01.159 issue the boiler order and so so unfortunately this one 314 00:17:01.200 --> 00:17:04.640 was on Saturday. It made it difficult to communicate with 315 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:07.440 the public. It made it difficult in fact to communicate 316 00:17:07.440 --> 00:17:10.359 with ODEQ because not all of their people were available. 317 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:14.079 So it was an unfortunate set of circumstances. I'm grateful 318 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:15.839 to you and your staff because you were able to 319 00:17:15.839 --> 00:17:19.680 work through it quickly and reassure the public. But even 320 00:17:19.920 --> 00:17:23.200 even a day under those circumstances is certainly too much. 321 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:24.960 So we're going to do our part to work with 322 00:17:25.039 --> 00:17:28.720 ODQ and go through sort of an after action. You 323 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.079 know what, how could we have done this better and 324 00:17:31.119 --> 00:17:36.200 how could we work better with ODQ? The ODQ called 325 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:40.880 our water plant about it was late afternoon or early afternoon, 326 00:17:40.920 --> 00:17:44.160 about one one, and that was essentially the same time 327 00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:45.519 that they issued the public notice. 328 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:48.319 So we were notified pretty much concurrently with the public 329 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:50.279 on Saturday, right correct. 330 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:53.279 And so I know there was some concern why why 331 00:17:53.319 --> 00:17:55.480 we didn't do more to notify the public. Well, as 332 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:57.720 soon as we became aware of the boiler order. We 333 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:01.319 immediately worked that first off, answer the question. We don't 334 00:18:01.319 --> 00:18:04.119 want to put out information prematurely, so to try to 335 00:18:04.160 --> 00:18:08.240 answer the questions, I have to tell you Saturday morning, 336 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.880 I wasn't sure that odeq's website hadn't been hacked. 337 00:18:10.880 --> 00:18:15.119 I was so surprised by this and so so working 338 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:15.599 through it. 339 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.519 The positive test, of course, was on Thursday, and I 340 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.079 have had people ask well, why didn't you why didn't 341 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:24.440 you go to a boil order immediately, And the answer 342 00:18:24.519 --> 00:18:25.319 is is we we. 343 00:18:25.359 --> 00:18:28.599 Actually don't control that. That is od Q who does 344 00:18:28.640 --> 00:18:29.839 the boil orders. 345 00:18:29.920 --> 00:18:32.519 And they are the they are the jurisdiction that is 346 00:18:32.519 --> 00:18:34.759 in charge of this, and their instructions to us were 347 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:40.119 essentially to flush, resample and then and then wait for the. 348 00:18:40.039 --> 00:18:42.200 Results to wait, right yeah, So I mean that was 349 00:18:42.240 --> 00:18:44.960 our specific question right away, is what do we need 350 00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:45.319 to do? 351 00:18:45.759 --> 00:18:49.200 Is a boil order? Isn't an advisory? Is it? What action? 352 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:54.599 And they said resample. Once we get those resample results, 353 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:58.279 which again takes twenty four hours for that test to run, 354 00:18:58.559 --> 00:19:02.000 then we will go from there and advise you what 355 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:06.599 the next steps are. So we have certainly learned a 356 00:19:06.640 --> 00:19:11.480 lot in this process and so I would anticipate there 357 00:19:11.480 --> 00:19:16.000 will be some changes if this ever happens again, which 358 00:19:16.960 --> 00:19:21.519 again our goal and that's our prime directive and innocence 359 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:24.400 is it for it will never happened again, but in 360 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:29.119 that off chance that it does, to be better prepared 361 00:19:29.160 --> 00:19:32.720 for that. And so it caught us by surprise certainly 362 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:35.039 when they issued it, and we were scrambling ever since 363 00:19:35.920 --> 00:19:38.880 to one get information out, but two is to fix it. 364 00:19:38.960 --> 00:19:43.279 I mean, that was the important things to correct that. 365 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:46.640 So we had the dual tracks. We're fixing it and 366 00:19:46.720 --> 00:19:49.279 getting the public information so they can make an informed 367 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:53.559 decision understand what's going on with it. And so again 368 00:19:54.119 --> 00:19:57.960 Kelly and Kelsey really championed the information aspect of it, 369 00:19:58.039 --> 00:20:01.440 so that allowed me to really focus on fixing it 370 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:05.319 or correcting it. So again I'm deeply appreciated for them 371 00:20:05.359 --> 00:20:08.119 and their efforts to do that. That helped me and 372 00:20:08.440 --> 00:20:11.559 the water plant staff. They were out there and did 373 00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:14.680 a tremendous amount of work as well to check, verify, test, 374 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:18.079 do all the things that we can do on site 375 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:20.799 to make sure everything was where it needed to be. 376 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:25.400 And again all those tests came back good. Everything tested 377 00:20:25.880 --> 00:20:28.880 exactly where it needed to be. Throughout this whole process. 378 00:20:28.920 --> 00:20:34.160 So that's why we felt confident that this was going 379 00:20:34.200 --> 00:20:37.799 to be resolved very quickly. But again we had to 380 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:40.000 go through the process. We had to get the actual 381 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:43.559 tests through an independent lab that certified everything is what 382 00:20:44.240 --> 00:20:45.960 we were seeing on our end as well. 383 00:20:46.519 --> 00:20:49.759 So in summary, it is the water safe to drink. 384 00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:51.279 Safe to drink, so you do not need to run 385 00:20:51.319 --> 00:20:55.039 your tap. I think there's some thought about just flush 386 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.240 your line, do anything. No, the water was always safe 387 00:21:00.240 --> 00:21:02.960 to flush your system, to run the tab before you 388 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.160 take a drink. You can use water certainly as you 389 00:21:06.559 --> 00:21:11.640 normally would. Obviously as a resident and a consumer of 390 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:15.440 bars of water. This shakes your confidence, it shakes your 391 00:21:15.440 --> 00:21:18.839 trust in the water department. That's something that we're going 392 00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:23.200 to have to build back, certainly through through the next weeks, years, months, 393 00:21:23.799 --> 00:21:27.000 those sorts of things. But you know that's again our 394 00:21:27.119 --> 00:21:30.319 utmost priority is to produce that water that's safe, that's reliable. 395 00:21:31.240 --> 00:21:35.079 We have a staff that's very committed to that, extremely professional, 396 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:37.960 knowledgeable in what they do, and we will continue to 397 00:21:38.559 --> 00:21:41.480 deliver that. But we're going to find out what exactly 398 00:21:41.519 --> 00:21:43.960 happens so that we can if we need to make 399 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:46.480 a correction in some of our sampling or how our 400 00:21:46.519 --> 00:21:50.559 sites are maintained, then we will certainly implore those or 401 00:21:51.720 --> 00:21:54.440