(a) The public water systems serving the City of Maywood shall conduct, publish, and submit to the City of Maywood, the State Department of Public Health, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, the Senate Committee on Environmental Quality, and the Assembly Committee on Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials a study on the City of Maywood’s water by December 21, 2010, addressing the impacts of manganese on the quality of the City of Maywood’s water. The report shall contain all of the following:
(1) Testing information and results on manganese for all of the sources of drinking water for the City of Maywood.
(2) The amount of manganese being contributed by each water source that serves the City of Maywood.
(3) Immediate and long-term steps that can be taken by the public water systems to reduce the amount of manganese in the drinking water supply to be at least as low as a level that is consistent with the average level in communities within a 20-mile radius of the City of Maywood.
(4) Infrastructure improvements that can be made to reach the immediate and long-term goals to reduce the level of manganese and other contaminants in the water to be consistent with the average level in communities within a 20-mile radius of the City of Maywood.
(5) Actions that the public water systems will take to pursue funding in order to achieve those improvements.
(b) The City Council of Maywood shall conduct a public hearing on the results of the study.
(c) The public water systems shall respond in writing to public comments made at the hearing to the City Council of Maywood.
(d) The study and comments shall be posted on the public water systems’ Internet Web sites.
(e) All current notifications sent to the rate payers within the City of Maywood concerning water contaminants shall also be sent to occupants, in the same manner as set forth in subdivision (f) of Section 116450, and shall be distributed in English and the primary language of the residents of the city as well as posted on the public water systems’ Internet Web sites.
(Added by Stats. 2009, Ch. 259, Sec. 2. (AB 890) Effective January 1, 2010.)