The city of Longmont released a statement that it violated a drinking water requirement when it failed to collect samples at the correct temperature in July.
The city collects water samples for testing each quarter, according to a news release from the city of Longmont. Samples were collected in July and sent to the contract lab for testing. When the samples arrived, they were determined to have arrived at the wrong temperature which negated their ability to be tested properly.
The city was not notified of the temperature error until August, after which it immediately took new samples and sent them to the lab, according to the news release. The new samples met the requirements for drinking water.
"We are required to monitor your drinking water for specific contaminants on a regular basis. Results of regular monitoring are an indicator of whether or not our drinking water meets health standards. During the third Quarter of 2022 we did not complete all monitoring or testing for disinfection byproducts—Total Trihalomethanes (TTHMs) and Haloacetic acids (HAA5s) on time and therefore cannot be sure of the drinking water quality during that time on the basis of
water quality monitoring," the city states in the news release.
The city of Longmont cannot confirm the state of the drinking water during this time, however, it expects the water quality remained the same.
"We can however assure the Longmont community that the City has been treating the same source water and using the same potable water treatment protocols for
many years now, including during the third quarter of 2022. We expect but cannot verify that the potable water quality during this time was similar to the periods for which we do have monitoring data," the news release states.
The city is required to notify residents anytime there is a monitoring violation with its water and does not consider there to be an emergency.
Communications and Marketing Specialist Scott Hansen from the city of Longmont, said the water was not impacted during this time and doesn't expect that residents would have seen a change in smell, taste or quality of the water.
