Hickey, who is credited with bringing the issue to light amid resistance from village officials, said he was shocked to hear that state health department officials were aware that the EPA had a preliminary warning of about 400 parts per trillion, but still assured Hoosick Falls residents that the water was safe even though multiple
drinking water sources tested higher.
Not exact matches
At the same time, this Administration has initiated an aggressive response to ensure Hoosick Falls residents have clean
drinking water and peace of mind — including expanded well and blood
testing, installing
water filtration systems at no cost, and beginning work on finding an alternative
water source.»
He said the state was awaiting more
testing before giving the all - clear on the
drinking water sources.
While the Cuomo administration is pushing the U.S. EPA to
test all
drinking water sources for dangerous chemicals, environmental groups say the state should take action.
They include Charles Carr, a homeowner whose private well had a PFOA level of 390 parts per trillion when it was
tested last year, far above the advisory level of 70 ppt for a
drinking water source established recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is urging the Environmental Protection Agency to send inspectors to the City of Ithaca to
test drinking water sources in all Ithaca City Schools.
He brings a civil engineer's understanding to it, fighting for lead
testing in schools and now looking to establish a
source of emergency funding to help schools resolve
drinking water issues quickly.
Portable potable
test One of the reasons that the U.N. relies on improved
sources as a measure of
drinking water access rather than actual safety is that the latter is much more difficult to assess than counting wells and spigots.
Well
Test Treatments: Properties with a well as the primary drinking source will require a well water t
Test Treatments: Properties with a well as the primary
drinking source will require a well
water testtest.
A lifelong advocate for our coast, Williams championed required
testing of groundwater before, during, and after hydraulic fracturing, which was included in California's regulations on fracking, and authored legislation to expand groundwater monitoring to other types of injection wells to protect underground
sources of
drinking water from oil and gas wastewater disposal.