PDAC: Submission #718 | Dayton Development Coalition

Submission information

Project Details

1. To which Review Panel are you submitting your project? Transportation & Government Services

2. Project title Construction of 48” Raw Water Interconnect between the Miami Well Field and the Ottawa Treatment Plant

3. Short description This project is part of Dayton Water’s PFAS Strategy. The objective is to ensure compliance with PFAS Maximum Contaminant Levels by increasing production at the Miami Well Field to convey raw water to the Ottawa Treatment Plant. The ability to blend water that is not contaminated with PFAS with water from the Mad River Well Field for treatment at the Ottawa Water Treatment Plant will enable Dayton to decrease the level of PFAS contamination in its finished water.

Organization Details

4. Organization making the request City of Dayton

5-8. Address 101 West Third Street
Dayton, Ohio. 45402

9. County Montgomery

10. Recipient organization Same

11-14. Address {Empty}

15. County {Empty}

16. Organization type Government

Organization Contact Details

17. Name Rosalind Bertolo

18. Title Special Projects Administrator

19. Organization City of Dayton

20. Telephone 937-333-3755

21. Email rosalind.bertolo@daytonohio.gov

22-25. Address 320 West Monument Avenue
Dayton, Ohio. 45402

26. County Montgomery

27. Additional contacts {Empty}

Location Details

28. City Dayton

29. County Montgomery

30. Congressional district Ohio 10th

Financial Details

31. Funding request 30000000

32. Total Cost 30000000

33. Other sources of funds No source of a match is known at this time. The City of Dayton should not be responsible for the remediation of the PFAS contamination. Dayton did not cause the WPAFB contamination, which occurred outside of Dayton on property owned and controlled by the U.S. Government. The City has brought suit against the PFAS manufacturers as well as the Department of Defense in order to remediate these sites. It is inherently unfair to require the impoverished ratepayers of the City of Dayton to cover the cleanup of pollution that the City did not cause and that occurred outside of Dayton’s boundaries in areas where it had no control.

34. How the funds will be used Construction or Capital

35. Do you have matching funds raised or committed? If yes, explain in question #36. If no, skip to question #37. No

36. If yes, please provide additional information. (Or, budget document can be uploaded, see question 37) The City is working closely with OEPA regarding emerging contaminant funding. Funds allocated to OEPA through BIL may be available.

37. Budget No

38. By what date will you be ready to spend the funds Within the next 6 months

39. Programs/grants for which this project would qualify OEPA Division of Environmental and Financial Assistance, State Revolving Loan Fund

Community Details

40. Community Need BACKGROUND
In 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced lower Health Advisory Levels (HAL) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) at 70 ppts. The City had previously monitored for PFOA and PFOS during the Third Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR3) 2013-1015, with the results showing as non-detect at Ottawa and Miami Water Treatment Plant, as the detection limits were 20 and 40ppt respectively.

Upstream of the City’s water source Wright Patterson Airforce Base (WPAFB) detected PFAS during UCMR3 above the HAL. Under the advisement of the regulatory agency and out of an abundance of caution, the City took aggressive actions to preserve the source water and ensure its customers receive safe, high-quality drinking water. Measures included:

• Expanding the early warning monitoring well network.
• Monitoring at the treatment plants.
• Removing production wells from operational rotation.

The removal of production wells from operational rotation was viewed as a temporary solution while the City investigated more sustainable solutions, using the data gained from the increased monitoring schedules. Also, removing production wells decreased the water systems redundancy and increased operational costs as production wells are not rotated on their normal schedules.
In 2018, an updated analytical method was approved, lowering the quantifiable concentration numbers of PFOA and PFOS. Thus, the City started seeing detections in its Mad River Well Field and its Ottawa Water Treatment. The Mad River Well Field supplies water to the Ottawa Water Treatment Plant and the Miami Well Field supplies water to the Miami Water Treatment Plant. Currently, the water supplies are separate.

In June 2022, the EPA again lowered HAL for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), and introduced new HALS perfluorobutanesulfonic acid (PFBS), and GenX. The current City detections:
• PFOA 4 ppq (0.004ppt)
o Ottawa Water Treatment Plant 1.20 ppt (5/10/22)- 5.14 ppt (12/14/19)
o Miami Water Treatment Plant ND
• PFOS 20ppq (0.020ppt)
o Ottawa Water Treatment Plant 1.20 ppt (6/26/19)- 13.7 ppt (9/06/18)
o Miami Water Treatment Plant ND
• GenX 10ppt
o ND at Ottawa and Miami Water Treatment Points
• PFBS 2000 ppt
o ND at Ottawa and Miami Water Treatment Points

As previously stated, the City took temporary aggressive actions of removing production wells from operational rotation while waiting on the final guidance agency and developing a more permanent solution to manage PFAS contamination found in its water, based on data gathered from 2015 through the present.

41. Previous Funding: Has the requesting organization received Congressionally earmarked funding in the past? If so, please provide a brief project description, year funded, amount, and Congressional sponsor. No

42. Direct new jobs created {Empty}

43. Existing jobs retained? {Empty}

44. Sustained permanent jobs? {Empty}

45. Please explain how you determined the job creation listed in questions 42-44. {Empty}

46. Using your best guess, of the jobs created over the next 10 years, what will the average salary be? {Empty}

47. Is your project a workforce development program? {Empty}

48. If yes, does your program center on one of the ten JobsOhio targeted industries? {Empty}

49. Counties in which jobs will be created {Empty}

Additional Details

50. Letters of endorsement, supporting materials, additional information. You can submit ONE PDF file that does not exceed 10 pages.

Dayton 22 23 PDAC PFAS Projects Map.pdf (2.71 MB)

51. Is there opposition to the project? No

52. Name of person filling out this form. Rosalind Bertolo

53. Telephone number of person filling out this form. 937-333-3755

54. Email of person filling out this form. This is where notification will be sent that the form was received. rosalind.bertolo@daytonohio.gov

55. Do you want your project to be considered as a Community Project in the fiscal year 2025 –2026 State Capital Budget Bill? {Empty}

56. If your project type is on the list of ineligible projects (see above), please offer an explanation why your project could be eligible. If your project is not on the list, answer the question by stating that your project is not on the list of ineligible projects. {Empty}

57. Has your organization received state capital budget funding in the past? If so, provide a brief project description, year funded, and amount. {Empty}

58. Does your project have a connection with, or provide some benefit to, a state agency that has bonding authority? Please check all that apply from the following list: {Empty}

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