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This week's NEWS
PPCPs:
fallout and follow-up to AP story continues. Nevada city considers
"bifurcation" approach to compliance with arsenic MCL and
Arizona utility seeks rate increases to pay for $30 million treatment
facilities. Initiation of chloramine treatment delayed again
in Pennsylvania as hearing approved. AwwaRF is looking for "a
few good men and women" to respond to research proposals and
collaboration team. One lawsuit initiated over contamination
of public water supply and the legal fees for big MTBE case are
divvied up.
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Federal Updates
State Updates
Chloramines
Security
- Two chemical security bills
are introduced in Congress:
Commentary: The first bill was reported on extensively in last
week's NEWS. The latter bill includes a specific
exemption for public water systems.
PPCPs
- The AP's "investigation" into PPCPs in drinking water
sources prompted extensive coverage which continued with follow-up
reactions:
- Senators plan to hold early April hearings (Lautenberg press release, March 10)
- AMWA
issues position statement (PDF
file, 122 K)
- Reactions
include Illinois order to begin monitoring and release of data
in other places (CBS News, March 13)
- Two
Arizona cities will begin testing for drugs in water (Arizona Republic, March
14)
- Scientists
say there is nothing to fear from such
small amounts of chemicals in water (San Diego Business Journal, March 17)
- Drugs in water supply on agenda as toxicologists meet in Seattle (Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 16) (Editor's
Note: The session on March 18 is titled "Human Health Risk
Assessment for Pharmaceuticals in the Environment")
- AP
follow-up: "Test it, study it, figure out how to clean it
– but still drink it." (Associated Press, March
16)
- Settlement
of CWA violations by Pennsylvania sewerage agency mandates
education program on proper pharmaceutical disposal (USEPA Region 3 news release,
March 17)
- USEPA
posted no new information on their PPCP website, but,
for example, one state did: Connecticut
issues statement (PDF file, 37.1 K) and
provides information
on proper disposal of drugs
- And... an editorial
cartoonist combines prominent issues: Waterboarding (Houston Chronicle,
March 11)
Fluoridation
Legal Matters
Arsenic
- Small
Nevada city looks at its options for meeting arsenic MCL (Reno Gazette Journal, March 14)
Commentary: Money
is the root of all... arsenic compliance, and Yerington faces
significant costs for treatment of several wells. An interesting
twist is that the city has included in its options the idea of
splitting its water system in half to get each part under 3000
service connections, presumably to enable each half to get additional
time for compliance. This concept will likely be a non-starter
with USEPA and Nevada's primacy agency. (The illogical extension
of this concept would be to divide the system into many small
units with 15 services in each so the SDWA wouldn't apply at
all.) We've heard about consolidation to get compliance, but
bifurcation to avoid compliance will probably be ruled unacceptable.
- Arizona
investor-owned utility spends $30 million for 20 arsenic-treatment
facilities... and seeks rate relief from PUC (Casa Grande Valley
Dispatch, March 15)
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TCE
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PFCs
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Sources
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Consumer
Attitudes
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