Sentences with phrase «drinking water standards»

The quality and safety of our water supply is also closely monitored with weekly checks to maintain safe drinking water standards.

It was considered a model of successful recycling of coal combustion waste until tests of nearby groundwater wells discovered arsenic and lead levels exceeding drinking water standards, according to city water tests.

Some hypothetical vertical farms have even been designed to recycle processed sewage (pdf), turning waste into water that meets drinking water standards.

With results in for 138 buildings, 119 buildings had no lead levels above the public drinking water standard.

The water supply sector is undergoing dramatic structural change fueled by a greater focus on replacing aging infrastructure, meeting evolving drinking water standards, and developing new supply sources.

As she has done in the past, Boxer called on the EPA to «overrule the Bush Administration's policy which was to walk away from setting a safe drinking water standard for perchlorate in our water supply.»

State environmental records show cancer - causing benzene has been found in groundwater at levels 100,000 times higher than permitted by federal drinking water standards.

Because the average adult drinks far more water (between 1.7 and 3.2 cups per day) than even core or frequent wine drinkers (roughly a half cup per day on average), it's an imperfect comparison to gauge health risks based on the EPA drinking water standard of 10 parts per billion.

By comparison, EPA drinking water standard for cesium - 137 is 3,700 Bq / m3.

«The EPA and state regulators must set drinking water standards to protect the public, including those more susceptible to the toxic effects of chromium - 6,» the EWG report reads.

The EPA reported last Friday that its water pollution sampling of the affected area of the river found «no petroleum hydrocarbons above drinking water standards in that region,» while its air pollution tests finds that «there continues to be no public health concerns resulting from the release of oil into the river.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's administration and New York health and environmental officials are once again pushing the federal Environmental Protection Agency to take action on establishing a clean drinking water standard for an industrial contaminate.

Governor Cuomo is calling on the federal Environmental Protection Agency to establish an official drinking water standard for the unregulated contaminant 1,4 - dioxane.

«The two rounds that were taken, we are both clear of chloroform in the distribution system so people can now return to the potable drinking now that the city is up to the potable drinking water standards,» Tkaczyk said.

Violations of health - related drinking water standards were more common in rural counties.

Beginning in 2009, results from groundwater monitoring wells near the recharge basins first detected increased arsenic levels, and in some cases the levels were just above the acceptable U.S. drinking water standard of 10 micrograms per liter.

Another suggestion we have is to contact your State public health agency and / or USEPA to find a copy of the cost effectiveness studies EPA performed in promulgating drinking water standards (maximum contaminant levels) for arsenic.

The EPA's assurances suggest that the substances detected do not violate specific drinking water standards, but no such standards exist for some of the contaminants and some experts said the agency should have acknowledged that they were detected at all.

National drinking water standard goes into effect, three years after the Safe Drinking Water Act is passed.

«This is about disclosure and empowering consumers,» said state Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D - Long Beach), who has filed a bill to ban the sale in of cosmetic and cleaning products with 1,4 - dioxane in New York, and require the state to set a safe drinking water standard for the chemical.

The report found that after testing 88 brands of juice, 10 percent had higher levels than the federal drinking water standards and 25 percent had higher levels than the FDA's bottled water drinking standards.

Research has found that groundwater nitrate levels in private wells across the state are nearing the state's drinking water standard of 10,000 micrograms per liter.

«To meet drinking water standards, a second well must be located, which is capable of exceeding the designed maximum daily demand when the primary well is out of service.»

Arsenic at levels higher than the EPA drinking water standard have also been found recently in juices popular with children.

«California's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) Proposes New, More Stringent, Drinking Water Standard for Hexavalent Chromium,» Gibson Dunn and Crutcher Blog (August 2009)

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State environmental officials Monday night ordered Northrop Grumman to grant access to wells monitoring a Bethpage plume after the local water district reported levels of the radioactive element radium exceeded drinking water standards.

«We really want to see the state act very quickly to set a drinking water standard.

Less than two weeks before the Bush administration left office, the EPA announced that it would delay its long - awaited decision on whether to set a drinking water standard for perchlorate until the National Academy of Sciences weighed in on the issue.That announcement effectively punted the decision to current EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson, who promised to regulate perchlorate at her confirmation hearing.

Although the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) current safe drinking water standard is 3 ppb, atrazine is often found in central North American waters at concentrations of up 10 ppb in spring, and peaks greater than 200 ppb have been recorded.

Water removed from 80 meters below the surface of Lake Ontario is pumped through three pipes to the Toronto Island Filtration Plant and treated to meet drinking water standards.

However, 12 pharmaceuticals are currently on the Environmental Protection Agency's list of chemicals under consideration for drinking water standards.

The study found lead in 58 percent of the samples, but only 5 percent — all from New York — exceeded drinking water standards.

A separate study calculated that people who eat more than 115 grams of high - arsenic rice could reach or surpass the drinking water standard of 10ppb per day.

The quality and safety of our water supply is also closely monitoredwith weekly checks to maintain safe drinking water standards.

It's never been necessary to clean every drop of water used by humans to drinking water standards, but we've set ourselves up to that requirement and in the process unnecessarily dirtied a lot of clean water and reduced the levels of reservoirs.

They ended up creating a composite structure that traps the nanoparticles in «composite cages» made from a clay - like material, which allows for the device to produce potable water that measures up to drinking water standards, at a rate of up to 10 liters per hour.

Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)-RRB- was reported at the site at 100 ppb (parts per billion)- 5,000 times the proposed California drinking water goals and above the federal drinking water standard.

Hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)-RRB- was reported at the site above 128 ppb (parts per billion)- 6,400 times the proposed California drinking water goals and 1.28 times the federal drinking water standard.

The year before, 123,000 picocuries per liter were detected in a well near the turbine building at Peach Bottom west of Philadelphia — six times the drinking water standard.

It should be noted that methane itself is not considered dangerous enough even to rate a drinking water standard.

Lead measured 16 times higher than the drinking water standard while barium and cadmium were three times higher.