{"id":797513,"date":"2019-07-10T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=368616"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:03:01","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T22:03:01","slug":"dillon-waiting-on-state-direction-to-address-elevated-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/dillon-waiting-on-state-direction-to-address-elevated-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Dillon waiting on state direction to address elevated levels of lead in drinking water"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"409\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DillonWater-SDN-051419.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DillonWater-SDN-051419.jpg 620w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/DillonWater-SDN-051419-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"><figcaption><strong>The town of Dillon discovered heightened levels of lead in the drinking water of seven of 20 sites tested earlier this year. Officials are waiting on state approval to change the town&#8217;s water treatment process to help address the &#8220;aggressiveness&#8221; of the source water, which is leeching lead from outdated pipes and fixtures.<\/strong><br \/><em>Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>DILLON \u2014 The town of Dillon is still in the wait-and-see stage of determining what to do about elevated levels of lead in drinking water.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In May, testing mandated by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment found levels of lead in excess of the state\u2019s maximum allowable limit <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"heightened levels of lead in some of the town\u2019s testing sites (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/dillon-discovers-high-lead-levels-in-drinking-water-at-testing-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\">at seven of the town\u2019s 20 test sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon\u2019s source water is clean and safe to drink, but is considered \u201caggressive,\u201d which is determined by pH levels, alkalinity, temperature and hardness. Aggressive water is able to leech materials off older fixtures containing leaded solder installed in homes prior to 1987.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dillon officials said they wanted to add soda ash \u2014 essentially baking soda \u2014 to the water treatment process to increase pH levels, alkalinity and harness to the water to reduce aggressiveness and leeching of older fixtures.<\/p>\n<p>Any changes to the water treatment process have to go through the state.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Helman, Dillon\u2019s chief water plant operator, said the town has submitted numerous tests and data to the state and is waiting to hear back.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re kind of in a holding pattern until that happens,\u201d Helman said. \u201cIt\u2019s just collecting data for the state so they can evaluate. They\u2019ll look at that and respond here soon to give us some direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/dillon-waiting-on-state-direction-to-address-elevated-levels-of-lead-in-drinking-water\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The town of Dillon discovered heightened levels of lead in the drinking water of seven of 20 sites tested earlier this year. Officials are waiting on state approval to change the town&#8217;s water treatment process to help address the &#8220;aggressiveness&#8221; of the source water, which is leeching lead from outdated pipes and fixtures.Photo by Skitterphoto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-797513","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 18:33:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}