^{2008 Drinking Water Quality Report}

^{The Utilities Board of the City of Oneonta, Alabama}

We’re very pleased to provide you with this year's Annual Water Quality Report for the year ended December 31, 2007. We want to keep you informed about the excellent water and services we have delivered to you over the past year. We have dedicated ourselves to produce drinking water that meets or does better than all state and federal drinking water standards. Our goal is, and always has been to provide to you, our customer, a safe and dependable supply of drinking water. Our water comes from two different sources: Our wells draw from the Fort Payne Chert Aquifer and our surface water is drawn from the Calvert Prong of the Warrior River.

This report shows our water quality and what it means, it will let you know the quality of the water that we are dedicated to provide you and your family.

If you have any questions about this report or concerning your water utility, please contact Bruce Dickie or Rodney McCain at 274-2159. We want our valued customers to be informed about their water utility. If you want to learn more, please attend any of our regularly scheduled meetings. They are held on the second Monday of every month at 5:00 P.M. at the office of the Utilities Board of the City of Oneonta. The office is located at 105 High School Street in Oneonta.

The Utilities Board of the City of Oneonta routinely monitors according to Federal and State laws, for constituents in your drinking water. This table shows the results of our monitoring for the period of January 1^st to December 31^st, 2007. All drinking water, including bottled drinking water, may be reasonably expected to contain at least small amounts of some constituents. It's important to remember that the presence of these constituents does not necessarily pose a health risk.

In this table you will find many terms and abbreviations you might not be familiar with. To help you better understand these terms we've provided the following definitions:

Non-Detects (ND) - laboratory analysis indicates that the constituent is not present.

Parts per million (ppm) or Milligrams per liter (mg/l) - one part per million corresponds to one minute in two years or a single penny in $10,000.

Parts per billion (ppb) or Micrograms per liter - one part per billion corresponds to one minute in 2,000 years, or a single penny in $10,000,000.

Parts per trillion (ppt) or Nanograms per liter (nanograms/l) - one part per trillion corresponds to one minute in 2,000,000 years, or a single penny in $10,000,000,000.

Parts per quadrillion (ppq) or Picograms per liter (picograms/l) - one part per quadrillion corresponds to one minute in 2,000,000,000 years or one penny in $10,000,000,000,000.

Picocuries per liter (pCi/L) - picocuries per liter is a measure of the radioactivity in water.

Millirems per year (mrem/yr) - measure of radiation absorbed by the body.

Million Fibers per Liter (MFL) - million fibers per liter is a measure of the presence of asbestos fibers that are longer than 10 micrometers.

Nephelometric Turbidity Unit (NTU) - nephelometric turbidity unit is a measure of the clarity of water. Turbidity in excess of 5 NTU is just noticeable to the average person.

Action Level - the concentration of a contaminant, which, if exceeded, triggers treatment or other requirements that a water system must follow.

Treatment Technique (TT) - (mandatory language) A treatment technique is a required process intended to reduce the level of a contaminant in drinking water.

Maximum Contaminant Level - (mandatory language) The “Maximum Allowed” (MCL) is the highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to the MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology.

Maximum Contaminant Level Goal - (mandatory language) The “Goal”(MCLG) is the level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety.

* NO NUMBER GIVEN

TEST RESULTS
Contaminant	Violation Y/N	Level Detected	Unit Measurement	MCLG	MCL	Likely Source of Contamination
Microbiological Contaminants
1. Total Coliform Bacteria	N	0	Per 100/ml	0	presence of coliform bacteria in 5% of monthly samples	Naturally present in the environment
2. Fecal coliform and E.coli	N	0		0	a routine sample and repeat sample are total coliform positive, and one is also fecal coliform or E. coli positive	Human and animal fecal waste
3. Turbidity	N	< 0.5	NTU	n/a