Technical Bulletin
and Drinking Water System Owners/
Operators
Issue # 1 – March 2010
PIBS 7467
has exceeded 1.0 NTU and the owner has not reported a 0.6
turbidity exceedence in the 24 hours prior to this for the
same filter and the filter effluent line is directing water to
the next stage of the treatment process, then the turbidity 0.3
exceedence is a prescribed adverse result for the purpose
of section 18 of the SDWA. The adverse result must be
reported by the owner / operating authority to the Ministry’s 0.0
12:00 12:05 12:10 12:15 12:20 12:25 12:30 12:35 12:40
Spill Action Centre (SAC), to the Medical Officer of Health PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM PM
TIME
Cartridge/Bag 2.0 + 0 2
0.6
Filters
0.4 Membrane 3.0 + 0.0 to 2
Filtration 2.0+
0.2
Conventional filtration is the most common treatment pro-
0.0 cess currently used by DWS that rely on raw water supplies
:0 M
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12 2 PM
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0
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12
12
1.0
• meet the performance criterion for filtered water tur-
bidity of less than or equal to 0.3 NTU in 95% of the
0.5 measurements each month.
To be able to assign filtration credits, all of the 5 criteria
0.0 listed above must be met. The first 4 criteria are straight
1:30 AM
1:45 AM
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2:45 AM
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3:45 AM
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