The Reporter newspaper, Camdenton Missouri

The Reporter covers Miller, Morgan and Camden County in Central Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks and is published once per week on Wednesdays.

Published February 21, 2018

DNR: No TCE present in city’s active wells

CAMDENTON - The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released its report concerning all three currently active public wells serving the City of Camdenton.

The report notes that the city’s water meets safe drinking water standards.

Multiple years of sampling has demonstrated TCE is not present. Results of all sampling back to 1997 can be found on the department’s Drinking Water Watch website at https://dnr.mo.gov/DWW/

All public drinking water systems in the state of Missouri have trained system operators who collect samples and send them to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ laboratory in Jefferson City for analysis.

Annually in April, the City of Camdenton collects samples from the three active public drinking water wells serving the city of Camdenton (Blair Heights, Hickory and North Rodeo).

The department analyzes these samples for volatile organic compounds.

At the request of the Camdenton Industrial TCE Contamination Advisory Team
(CITCA T) DNR and the city agreed to have Department staff collect the 2018 annual samples in order to ensure the quality of the sampling process.

Department staff, Michael Grose of the Southwest Regional Office, collected the annual monitoring samples on Jan. 18, 2018.
John Jurgensmeyer, Hazardous Waste Program Director, accompanied and observed Grose.

Bill Jeffries, city of Camdenton Public Works Director, was present to allow access to each of the wells sampled. (Jeffries is the certified operator who routinely collects
the required drinking water samples).

This report may also be seen at the department’s web page at https://dnr.mo.gov/env/hwp/camdentontce.html

The January 2018 samples were analyzed at the department's laboratory. Volatile organic compounds were not detected.

The analytical laboratory data sheets for the well samples are available on the website in addition to a document with helpful tips on how to read results and interpret data.

There has been concern from city residents that the TCE contamination in a non-used well has spread through the water table to other city wells. The DNR reports claim this has not happened.