{"id":5014,"date":"2019-11-04T02:56:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T09:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5014"},"modified":"2020-09-18T09:49:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T15:49:10","slug":"eid-lead-contamination-letter","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/?page_id=5014","title":{"rendered":"ECHO – Lead Contamination Community Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Emigration Canyon Home Owner,\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

On November 2, 2019, the Emigration Canyon Home Owners Association (\u201cThe ECHO-Association<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/span>“) issued a press release<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the Canyon Community that the water system operated by Emigration Improvement District<\/a><\/span> (\u201cEID<\/b><\/i>\u201d) had reported Lead Contamination<\/a><\/span> of its drinking water system (see<\/em> EID Notice below) to at least three (3) Emigration Canyon homeowners thereby leading to the<\/span>\u00a0following newspaper article\u00a0<\/span>by Environmental Reporter Brian Maffly\u00a0<\/span>of the Salt Lake Tribune:\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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We note that the original drinking water system installed by The Boyer Company LC<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the Emigration Oaks PUD<\/a><\/span> tested positive for Copper Contamination in 1993<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span>1994<\/a><\/span>\u00a0with the sole operation of Boyer Well #1<\/a><\/span> but then tested positive for both Lead & Copper Contamination after\u00a0Boyer Well #2<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>was placed into operation sometime in 1995<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the same levels of lead at all testing locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Similar levels of lead contamination was subsequently reported to Emigration Canyon Advisory Committee Member\u00a0Dick Moffat<\/a><\/span> of The Boyer Company LC<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for the years 1996<\/a><\/span>, 1997<\/a><\/span> and 1998<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Despite contamination, EID took over the Emigration Oaks PUD water system in August 1998 from The Boyer Company LC<\/span><\/a> and City Development Inc.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0and then again tested positive in 2001<\/a><\/span> and 2004<\/a><\/span>\u00a0along all sections of the Emigration Oaks PUD existing at that time thereby recording similar levels of lead at all testing locations.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Although\u00a0initially denied<\/a><\/span>, we now know that all EID water sources identified as\u00a0Boyer Well Nr. 1<\/a><\/span>, Boyer Well Nr. 2<\/span><\/a>, Brigham Fork Well<\/a><\/span>, and the Upper Freeze Creek Well<\/span><\/a>\u00a0have tested positive for Lead Contamination prior to being placed into operation or shortly thereafter. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

The ECHO-Association further notes that<\/span> Dr. Steve Onysko<\/span><\/a> of the Utah Department of Drinking Water (\u201cDDW<\/i><\/b>\u201d) had notified the Salt Lake County Health Department on July 31, 2015 that EID under the management of Mr. Hawkes<\/a><\/span>\u00a0of the Simplifi Company<\/a><\/span> had been operating\u00a0Boyer Well #2<\/a><\/span> without a valid operating permit and such a permit\u00a0could not be issued\u00a0<\/b><\/em>as<\/span> per correspondence from DDW to EID dated September 20, 1995<\/a><\/span>.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

It also appears that EID is operating both the Chlorinator for Boyer Well Nr. 2<\/a><\/span> and the\u00a0Wildflower Reservoir<\/a><\/span> without a valid operating permit as mandated under the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

Lastly, EID’s water sources have surpassed federal drinking-water standards for Lead<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Gross Alpha<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>Antimony<\/a><\/span>, Turbidity<\/a><\/span>, Bacteria<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Sulfates<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<\/span>Total Dissolved Solids (TDS)<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0without ever having warned its water users.<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n

To date, Eric and Jennifer Hawkes of the Simplifi Company<\/a><\/span> have refused release laboratory test results of lead contamination of the EID Water System as alleged in the Utah State Third District Cour<\/span><\/a>t. \u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

In select areas, The ECHO-Association will provide free water testing<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Please feel free to contact us<\/span><\/a> with any questions concerns or comments.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Kind Regards,\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n

Mark Christopher Tracy<\/span>
\n–\u00a0qui tam<\/em> Relator \/ ECHO President<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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See also<\/em><\/span>: “Lead Levels Below EPA Limits Can Still Impact Your Health,” at<\/span> <\/span>National Public Radio (NPR), August 13, 2016<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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NPR reported that Jeff Cohen, who was on the EPA team that decided on the 15 parts per billion number, said linking it to a threshold for public health is a “misunderstanding.” “The goal of the rule is zero lead in drinking water,” he said. The EPA’s action level isn’t based on medical research. No amount of lead in drinking water is known to be safe. “It was never designed to identify a safe level of lead in drinking water,” Cohen told NPR. The number was simply what water utilities told the EPA they could manage with treatment back in the late 1980s, when the EPA’s Lead and Copper Rule was drafted.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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  Dear Emigration Canyon Home Owner,\u00a0 On November 2, 2019, the Emigration Canyon Home Owners Association (\u201cThe ECHO-Association“) issued a press release\u00a0for the Canyon Community that the water system operated by Emigration Improvement District (\u201cEID\u201d) had reported Lead Contamination of its drinking water system (see EID Notice below) to at least three (3) Emigration Canyon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5014"}],"version-history":[{"count":98,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7645,"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5014\/revisions\/7645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echo-association.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}