These instructions apply to you if you own or operate a
noncommunity public water system—for example, the water
system at a camp, prison, school, or similar facility. When
necessary to tell your customers to boil water before using it for
drinking, food preparation, or washing, you must:
- Notify customers as soon as possible. [Title 30 Texas
Administrative Code (30 TAC) Paragraph 290.122(a)(2)]
- Using the appropriate mandatory language, prepare a boil water
notice in English and, if necessary,
Spanish [30 TAC Subsection
290.47(e)].
- Issue the notice in at least one of these ways [30 TAC
Subparagraphs 290.122(b)(2)(B)&(C)]:
- by hand delivery
–or–
- by continuously posting the notice in conspicuous places within
the area served by your PWS until we tell you that you may take it
down [30 TAC Subparagraphs 290.122(a)(2)(D)&(a)(3)(C)]
- Within 10 days of when you issue this or any other notice
mentioned in these steps, send a copy of the actual notice and the
signed
Certificate of Delivery of Public Notice to Customers (form
TCEQ-20208) to us by mail at:
TCEQ
Drinking Water Quality Team Public Notice Coordinator MC-155
PO Box 13087
Austin TX 78711-3087
or by fax to 512/239-3666 [30 TAC Paragraph 290.122(a)(5)& 30
TAC Subsection 290.122(f)].
- If you hand-delivered the initial notice, then, for as long as
the violation exists, hand-deliver a follow-up notice every three
months. [30 TAC Paragraph 290.122(a)(3)(C)] After each follow-up
notice, complete
TCEQ-20208 as described in Step 4 and submit it to us with a
copy of the notice issued.
- When it is no longer necessary for your customers to boil
water, issue another notice in the same way you issued the original
notice. [30 TAC Paragraph 290.122(a)(4)] Then, as described in Step
4, complete
TCEQ-20208 and submit it to us with a copy of this notice.
If you have any questions about these instructions, e-mail us at
pdws@tceq.state.tx.us or
call 512/239-4691 and ask to speak with a “coliform” or
“Bac-T” expert in our Public Drinking Water
Section.
