2023 Consumer Confidence Report

Town of Oldenburg
Oldenburg Utility Services works vigilantly to provide a reliable, plentiful supply of safe drinking water every day. This
annual drinking water quality report is designed to show
Oldenburg customers how successfully that goal was
achieved during 2023. Oldenburg
’s record is one that reflects the commitment of our Town to provide safe, healthy
water for the community in which they also live. This report
meets the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) requirement for Consumer Confidence Reports and contains information on the source of our water, its quality and the health
risks associated with any contaminants in our water. Safe
water is vital to our community. Please read this report carefully and, if you have questions, call the numbers listed in
this report
.
The source of Oldenburg
’s drinking water is purchased from
Batesville Water & Gas Utility. The source of the water
comes from two sources, one ground water and one surface
water. 85% is ground water pumped from the Metamora
wellfield, the other 15% comes from six municipal resivors.
Water is pumped from these sources and treated to remove
contaminants and protect the public.
To protect this source from potential contamination,
Batesville has developed a wellhead protection plan. This
community
-based plan helps protect our source of drinking
water through a program of pollution prevention. Watch for
information and updates regarding this program .
Sources of drinking water (both tap and bottled water) include rivers, lakes, streams, ponds, reservoirs, springs and
wells. As water travels over the surface of the land or
through the ground, it dissolves naturally occurring minerals
and in some cases, radioactive material, and can pick up
substances resulting from the presence of animals or from
human activity.
Contaminants that may be present in source water include: • Microbial contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria,
which may come from sewage treatment plants, septic
systems, agricultural livestock operations, and wildlife.
• Inorganic contaminants such as salts and metals which
can be naturally
-occurring or result from urban storm
water runoff, industrial or domestic wastewater discharges, oil and gas production, mining or farming.
• Pesticides and herbicides, which may come from a
variety of sources such as agriculture, storm water
runoff, and residential uses.
• Organic chemicals, including synthetic and volatile
organic chemicals, which are byproducts of industrial
processes and petroleum production and can also
come from gas stations, urban storm water runoff, and
septic systems.
• Radioactive materials, which can be naturally occurring
or be the result of oil and gas production and mining
activities.
2023
Annual Consumer
Confidence Report
Town of Oldenburg
Oldenburg
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Oldenburg
47036
PERMIT NO. 116
Oldenburg Utility Services
P.O. Box 116
Oldenburg, IN 47036
Oldenburg Utilities routinely monitors for constituents in
your drinking water according to all Federal and State
laws. The following table provides the results for those
constituents that were detected as part of our 2023
monitoring.
Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably
be expected to contain at least small amounts of some
contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not
necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk.
More information about contaminants and potential
health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at (800) 426-4791.
Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants
in drinking water than the general population. Immunecompromised persons such as persons with cancer
undergoing chemotherapy, persons who have undergone organ transplants, people with HIV/AIDS or other
immune system disorders, some elderly, and infants
can be particularly at risk from infections. These people
should seek advice about drinking water from their
health care providers. EPA/CDC guidelines on appropriate means to lessen the risk of infection by cryptosporidium and other microbiological contaminants are
available from the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (800-
426-4791).
We want our valued customers to be informed about
their water utility. If you have any questions about this
report, concerning your water utility, or if you would like
information regarding boil water advisories visit our
website at www.cityofOldenburg.com or the wellhead
protection program, please contact Leslie Day at (765)
993-3978 If you want to learn more, you are welcome
to attend any of our regularly scheduled Utility Board
meetings held at 7:00 PM on the third Tuesday of each
month
Lead: If present, elevated levels of lead can cause
serious health problems, especially for pregnant women and young children. Lead in drinking water is primarily from materials and components associated with
service lines and home plumbing. Oldenburg Utilities is
responsible for providing high quality drinking water, but
cannot control the variety of materials used in plumbing. When your water has been sitting for several
hours, you can minimize the exposure by flushing your
tap for 1 to 2 minutes prior to drinking or cooking.. If
you are concerned about lead in your drinking water,
have it tested. Information is available at the Safe
Drinking Water Hotline at (800)426-4791 or at
www.epa.gov/safewater/lead.
All of us at Oldenburg work diligently every day to provide top quality water to every tap. We ask that our
customers help us protect our water sources, which are
the heart of our community, our way of life and our
children’s future.
Parameter
B = Batesville
O = Oldenburg
Violation
Yes / No
Maximum
Level Detected
B=Batesville
O=Oldenburg
Unit of
Measure
MCL
G
MCL Likely Source of Substance in Drinking Water
Inorganic Constituents
Chlorine O = 2022 No O = 0.7-0.8 PPM 4 4 Erosion of natural deposits.
Copper B = 2021 O = 2021 No B =.375
O =.146(1)
PPM 1.3 AL=
1.3
Corrosion of household plumbing systems; erosion of natural deposits.
Lead B =2021 O = 2021 No B = 0
O = 2.11)
PPB 0 AL-
.015
Corrosion of household plumbing systems; erosion of natural deposits.
Arsenic B = 2017 No B = 1.1 (2) PPM 4 4 Water additive, which promotes strong teeth.
Nitrate-N B = 2022 O = 2022 No B = 1.63
O = .35
PPM 10 10 Runoff from fertilizer use; erosion of natural deposits.
Fluoride B = 2023 No .665 PPM N/A N/A Erosion of natural deposits.
Total Organic Carbon % removal B = 2021
No 68.2% % N/A N/A Naturally Present in the Enviroment
Barium 2019 No .067 ppm 2 2 Discharge of drilling wastes: Discharge form metal refiners; Erision of natural deposits.
Volatile Organic Constituents
Gross alpha excluding radon
and uranium. B= 2020
No 6.1 pCi/L 0 15
Total (HAA5) = 2023 No B = 2.5-9.8
O = 1.9-6.78
ppb N/A 60 ppb By-product of drinking water chlorination.
(TTHM) = 2023 No B = 4.56-18.5
O = 6.19-17.6
ppb N/A 80 ppb By-product of drinking water chlorination.
(1) 2021 Level reported for Copper and Lead represents the 90th percentile value as calculated from a total of 20 samples

(2)
- Levels of Fluoride detected range from .7– 1.5 PPM.
All other tested contaminants were below detection limits.
All analyses performed in 2017, 2019,2021,2023 The state allows us to monitor for some contaminants less than once per year because the concentrations of
these contaminants do not change frequently. Therefore, some of the data while representative, is more than one year old.
Included in the table above, you will find terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To help you better understand these
terms we’ve provided the following definitions:
Not Applicable (N/A) - no MCLG or MCL had been established for these unregulated constituents.
Parts per million (PPM) - one part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000.
Parts per billion (PPB) - one part per billion corresponds to one minute in two thousand years or a single penny in $10,000,000.
Action Level (AL) - the concentration of a contaminant which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements which there is no known or expected risk
to health. MCLG’s allow for a margin of safety.
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) - The “Goal” (MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or
expected risk to health. MCLG’s allow for a margin of safety.
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) - The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCL’s
are set as close to the MCLG’s as feasible using the best available treatment technology. To understand the possible health effects described for many regulated constituents, a person would have to drink 2 liters of water every day at the MCL level for a lifetime to have a one-in-a-million chance of having the
health effect.