Do small water systems (that serve less than 10,000 people) have a waiver that excludes them from having to deliver the report to each of their customers?
In a word, no. The federal CCR regulation gave states the option of offering to small water systems a waiver for the “direct delivery requirement” when the state adopted the regulation as a state requirement. After much information gathering and discussion, DOH decided not to offer the waiver for at least the first several years that the CCR requirement is a state regulation. As a public health agency, we believe the information is important for the public to receive. We may be evaluating in the coming years whether it is appropriate to offer the waiver, but for the present, the waiver is not available. Please note that the direct delivery waiver, even if it becomes available to small water systems at a future date, would not alleviate the purveyor from being responsible for producing the report. If the waiver is offered in the future, alternative requirements would apply depending on system size. Systems that serve between 500 and 10,000 persons would have to publish the report in loc
