GUERNSEY – The Town of Guernsey was notified by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality in February of a violation in the frequency of water sampling.  

The town’s water supply is required to be sampled monthly to test for total coliform bacteria and to make sure the drinking water meets health standards. 

Samples were not collected in January 2024, and the notification was received of that violation after February’s samples were already collected and sent into the lab for analysis, Robbe Eckhardt of Guernsey’s public works department explained. Two samples, rather than the usual single sample, have been collected from Guernsey’s water supply in February, and both have come back with a good report. 

He emphasized everything is okay with the water supply, and the issue was a simple mistake of forgetting to take a January sample. 

“I try to keep on top of everything and I guess that one got away. It was an oversight on our part,” Eckhardt said. “It’s the first time in my life I’ve ever done that, and I’ve been doing this (taking samples) for years. I’m very confident in [the quality of] our water.”