Customers of the Connersville Utilities water department should have received the annual Consumer Confidence Report, giving levels of certain contaminants in the drinking water.
Those properties are south of the aquifer that supplies drinking water for Connersville, said David Kunkel, water plant operator.
The main water wells are near Roberts Park, on the north end of the city.
Testing is not done for every possible contaminant every year, Kunkel said.
Copper and lead are the contaminants that most people would check first, said Connersville Utilities Director Mike Bottomley.
Radioactive contaminants have been monitored every three years but are now every two years, with the next sampling coming in 2019, he said.
Testing for bacteria contamination is done monthly but no numbers are included in the annual report, just a statement at the bottom, “No 2017 samples tested positive for bacteriological contaminants.” The last bacteriological test that come back positive came in about 2009 and likely came as a result of mishandling a sample rather than from a contamination, Colter said.
The contaminants do not affect the water’s taste.
In August, the local water earned the Best Tasting Water in Indiana title from the Alliance of Indiana Rural Water for the fourth time.
“We really can’t tell you why our water tastes as good as it does,” Kunkel said.