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Ground Water  Rule  (GWR) Monitoring Requirements
Consecutive Systems Without Their Own Source
See additional placards for requirements for systems with their own source that do not purchase water or sell water to another system, wholesale
and consecutive systems with their own source, and those providing 4-log treatment of viruses and conducting compliance monitoring
TOTAL COLIFORM-POSITIVE

You do not have any source w
monitoring requirements under
the GWR, but if you are notified
of a total coliform-positive routine
sample collected under the Total
Coliform Rule, you must:
   Notify your wholesale systems
   WITHIN 24 HOURS of receiving
   notice of a total coliform-positive
   routine sample.
      FECAL INDICATOR-POSITIVE

      If you are notified by yoi
      wholesale system that trigg
      source water monitoring results
      are fecal indicator-positive, you
      must:
         Notify the public with a Tier 1
         Public Notice (PN) WITHIN 24
         HOURS.
         Community water systems
         must notify the public with a
         Special Notice in your next
         CCR.
ADDITIONAL MONITORING

If you are notified byyc
wholesale system that addi
source water monitoring results
are fecal indicator-positive, you
must:
   Notify the public with a Tier
   1PN WITHIN 24 HOURS.
   Community water systems
   must  notify the public with a
   Special Notice in your next
   CCR.
Footnote 1: For this violation you must notify the state within 48 hours of the violation and provide a Tier 2 PN to
the public within 30 days.
More information can be found in EPA's Consecutive System Guide for the GWR (EPA 815-R-07-020, July 2007).

The term "state" is used to refer to all types of primacy agencies including states, U.S. territories, Indian tribes, and EPA.
                          Wholesale Systems' Contact Information:
You are required to notify all wholesale systems WITHIN 24 HOURS of receiving notice of a total coliform-positive
sample. Please ensure that all wholesale systems' contact information is available and provided below to ensure
that they can be contacted within the appropriate timeframe.
Name:
                     Phone Number:
Name:
                     Phone Number:
Name:
                     Phone Number:
Name:
                     Phone Number:
CORRECTIVE ACTION

If the state identifies a significa
deficiency at your system, take
corrective action.
• A significant deficiency may be
  identified during a sanitary survey
  or at any other time.
• You are required to provide the
  state with information requested
  to complete a sanitary survey.
Within 30 days of notification:
• You must consult with your
  state to determine a corrective
  action  unless the state specifies a
  corrective action.
Within 120 days of notification:
• You must complete corrective
  action; or,
• You must be in compliance with
  state-approved corrective action
  plan and schedule.
If you fail  to take corrective action,
you will incur a treatment technique
violation and  must notify the public
with a Tier 2 PN.1
• Community water systems: If you
  have not corrected the significant
  deficiency before the end of the
  calendar year, you must notify
  the public with a Special Notice
  in your next CCR and repeat
  annually until the significant
  deficiency has been addressed.
• Noncommunity water systems:
  If you have not corrected the
  significant deficiency within 12
  months, you must notify the
  public with a Special Notice
  and repeat annually until the
  significant deficiency has been
  addressed.
State/Primacy Agency Contact (name and phone number):.
                                         Office of Water (4606M)  EPA 816-F-10-057  www.epa.gov/safewater  April 2010

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