| January 10, 2007 – Volume
8, No. 2 |
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This
week's NEWS
Perchlorate legislation
back on the front burner in new Congress. Confusion
about which
lead samples are included
in compliance reporting plagues
North Carolina system. Approaches
to solving
arsenic problems vary
widely. Low
water pressure triggers
boil water advisory... but
not every time. Marketing
of drinking water goes
retro! What political
pressures bear on assessing
health risk of perchlorate
in food in Oregon? California desalination
project gets a boost.
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Federal
Updates
- USEPA's
FY
2006 Performance and Accountability Report
Commentary: The
more significant drinking water goals and performance
are presented in this
section (PDF file, 148 K). It is
a bit difficult to read the report and determine
whether or not a goal was met and, more importantly,
if not, why not. One clue
is that if only one or two systems serving
large populations have a brief, transient,
and maybe not-too-significant violation,
it makes the overall compliance rate look
worse than it really is. EPA
is planning a change in their strategic plan
and reporting to account for this.
- The
UCMR 2 for 25 chemicals is final, official, and
effective on February 7, 2007, but monitoring
starts in January, 2008 (Federal
Register, January 4);
EPA schedules UCMR
2 webcast for February
State Updates
Arsenic
Source
Water Protection
Microbiological
Water Violations
Disinfection
Byproducts
Lead
Perchlorate
Desalination
Water Treatment
Fluoridation
Bottled Water
- Language
is important in marketing water products (NY Times Magazine,
January 7)
Commentary: Eminent
wordologist William Safire uses water terminology
to illustrate retronyms: "Those fogies that
S. J. Perelman wrote were 'afflicted with total
recall' will
remember what they used to call water. With
the rising tide of bottled water, not to mention sparkling
water (formerly
soda water, or seltzer), New Yorkers who yearn
for the pristine product of the local reservoirs
have taken to asking the waiter for Bloomberg water,
formerly Giuliani
water,
after the sitting mayor’s name. In the rest of the
nation, that refreshing and pleasantly inexpensive
drink, not carbonated but with its own beaded
bubbles winking at the brim, is now known by the retronym tap
water."
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McGuire Malcolm Pirnie Environmental Consultants has
been active in perchlorate issues since discovery of the contaminant
in drinking water in 1997. Since then, we have been a consultant
to numerous water systems, worked with both manufacturers
of treatment technologies and potentially responsible parties
(PRPs), and given expert witness testimony on perchlorate-related
matters.