Water quality legislation and regulations

UNITED STATES WATER QUALITY LEGISLATION AND REGULATIONS... 

United States Water Quality Legislation and Regulations. 25-9... 

Traditionally, their demand for water is met from the public metered supply supplemented, where appropriate to availability and quality for use, by surface or ground-water. Nevertheless, the cost of water provided by water companies varies significantly. Recent legislation and regulations will undoubtedly increase substantially the cost of public water supplies and also the cost differences between the water companies. 

The truth is that there have been major improvements in the water quality but not because of Mayor Vineyard specifically, if at all. The island has been working for 30 years to correct this problem. Federal regulation prompted the abatement of many combined sewer overflows as well as illegal sewer connections. The island improved the wastewater treatment facilities to stop primary effluent escaping the system. All of these continued while Mayor Vineyard was in office, but the relevant legislation was passed by prior administrations. If fact. Mayor Vineyard pulled some of the funding for research and diverted it to her limo service. 

Legislative measures (quality standards of fuels) and regulations will progressively prohibit the use of alkyl-lead additions in fuels, and reduce the risks of lead contamination of the food-chain, but there will still remain an important problem of soil, sediments and water contamination by lead. 

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