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11 Classifying Drinking Water Contamination for Regulatory Consideration
Pages 81-86

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From page 81...
... You can swim in it and you can get a little water in your mouth and it will not hurt you. Safe Drinking Water Act Ambient water quality criteria have been set up by toxicologists and risk assessors in the EPA and give end points for what is safe.
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From page 82...
... Drinking Water Resources With regard to drinking water source and resource issues, neither the Clean Water Act nor the Safe Drinking Water Act deals with resources directly. These acts were written that way specifically; Congress did not want to interfere with state's rights in water resources.
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From page 83...
... Drinking Water Treatment The main issue with drinking water treatment has always been dealing with microbial pathogens in a multiple-barrier approach. The laws from the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Surface Water Treatment Rule and its variations, prescribe a physical removal basis and a disinfection basis.
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From page 84...
... He said that under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA develops and promulgates these drinking water regulations and the states can take on the authority to implement them to gain primacy. American Indian tribes have some sovereignty, but EPA deals with their lands.
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From page 85...
... If the risk is one in a million, this is equivalent to 34 people, which is unacceptable from the Safe Drinking Water Act standpoint. It would have been best if cleanup of the Colorado River had started five years ago.
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From page 86...
... Dr. Macler stated that he believes whoever came up with the value "pulled it out of the air." The concept of acceptable risk came up in the 1980s during the 1986 revision of the Safe Drinking Water Act, in which Congress set up the maximum contaminant level goal (MCLG)
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