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Environmental Protection Agency drinking water contamination

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Drinking Water Contaminants... [Pg.1955]

Drinking water suppHed to carbonated soft drink manufacturing faciUties from private or municipal sources must comply with all regulatory requirements. Treated water must meet all U.S. Environmental Protection Agency primary maximum contaminant levels and may also be subject to additional state requirements. Treated water is routinely analyzed for taste, odor, appearance, chlorine, alkalinity, iron, pH, total dissolved soHds, hardness, and microbiological contamination. [Pg.15]

Beryllium is also present in solid and liquid fossil fuels. The burning of coal and oil emits beryllium particulates that may continue to circulate in the air for some time or settle into waterways. In lakes and ponds, the beryllium generally settles harmlessly to the bottom, but may enter drinking water reservoirs via rivers and streams, and has shown a marked abundance in Precambrian aquifers. In drinking water, levels exceeding the Environmental Protection Agency s maximum contaminant level of 4 parts per billion are extremely rare, but are most likely to occur near areas where industries dump wastewater. [Pg.96]

The US. Environmental Protection Agency specifies maximum contaminant levels (MCE) for total radium ( Ra plus Ra) in drinking water in units of pCi/L (picocuries per liter). In the past, perhaps as many as several hundred municipal water supplies in the United States have exceeded permissible levels, which has required finding alternative sources or additional treatment to remove radium. Fortunately, conventional water softening processes, which are designed to take out excessive levels of calcium, are relatively efficient in removing radium from water. [Pg.110]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under the Safe Drinking Water Act, set the secondary contaminant level for silver ia drinking water at 0.1 mg/L (20). Secondary contaminants are not considered to be hazardous to health and thus the limits are not federally enforceable. [Pg.85]

Public access to databases maintained by the US. Environmental Protection Agency. Databases such as Air, Chemicals, Facility Information, Releases, Water Permits, Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence, Maps, and more. [Pg.308]

FSTRAC. 1995. Summary of state and federal drinking water standards and guidelines. 1993-1995. Contaminant Policy and Communications Subcommittee, Federal-State Toxicology and Regulatory Alliance Committee. Cosponsored by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology. Office of Water. [Pg.293]

EPA. 1991a. National primary drinking water regulations Maximum contaminant levels and goals. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Code of Federal Regulations. 40 CFR 141.50 and 141.61. [Pg.175]

Event 8 Chemical Spill—Oil. Ashland Oil Company, Inc., Floreffe, Pennsylvania (January 1988). The oil spill temporarily contaminated drinking water sources for an estimated 1 million people in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio contaminated river ecosystems killed wildlife damaged private property and adversely affected businesses in the area. More than 511,000 gallons of diesel fuel remain unrecovered and are presumed to be in the rivers (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2008). [Pg.59]

Due to the capacity of deep wells to store injected waste for a long period of time, if the correct measures are taken in design, construction and operation, deep well injection can provide an effective and environmentally safe method of concentrate management. The major environmental concern for deep well injection is the potential for contamination of nearby aquifers, which may be used as a source of drinking water. Six pathways have been defined that describe the potential migration of concentrate that can cause contamination of aquifers (Shammas et al. 2009 United States Environmental Protection Agency 2002) ... [Pg.46]

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) (1998) Drinking water contaminant list. EPA document No. 815-F-98-002, GPO, Washington, DC... [Pg.301]

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US-EPA) is the federal agency responsible for regulating the level of contaminants in ambient air (Section 9.2.2.1), drinking water (Section 9.2.2.2), and soil (Section 9.2.2.3) while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (US-FDA) is the federal agency responsible for regulating the level of contaminants in food (Section 9.2.2.4). [Pg.360]

As more information on the extent of the contamination and the dangerous effects of perchlorate consumption has become available, much concern has arisen over perchlorate contamination in public water systems. Furthermore, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) has periodically reduced the acceptable limit for safe consumption. Currently, the limit stands at 0.7 pg/kg/day, which corresponds to 24.5 pg/E for a 70 kg human drinking 2 E of water per day. The method described by Eamb et al. [17] provides effective perchlorate determinations (shown in Figure 7) using standard conductimetric detection by combining an... [Pg.16]

The World Health Organization has established an international drinking-water guideline for di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate of 8 tg/L (WHO, 1993). The Environmental Protection Agency (1998) has set the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate in drinking-water at 6 tg/L in the United States. [Pg.57]


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