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Pittsboro says residents with health conditions should drink bottled water, asks for limited water use so it can limit intake from the Haw River. Pittsboro warns residents that 1,4-dioxane could ...
[28] 1,4-Dioxane was present in ethoxylated raw ingredients at levels up to 1410 ppm (~0.14%wt), and at levels up to 279 ppm (~0.03%wt) in off the shelf cosmetic products. [28] Levels of 1,4-dioxane exceeding 85 ppm (~0.01%wt) in children's shampoos indicate that close monitoring of raw materials and finished products is warranted. [28] While ...
By doing that, Sanford and Seminole County lowered 1,4-dioxane levels in drinking water to about half of the state and federal advisory level – 0.35 parts of the chemical in 1 billion parts of ...
In Pittsboro, there have been three occasions since July 2023 where a “slug” of 1,4-dioxane emanated from a chemical company in Burlington, passed through a wastewater treatment plant and ...
Central Florida’s 1,4-dioxane contamination has caught the attention of Yale University researchers. They want to hear concerns from residents who have been drinking water supplied by public ...
[20] [non-primary source needed] The remaining AEs are treated at waste water treatment plants and biodegraded via aerobic processes with less than 0.8% of AEs released in effluent. [20] If released into surface waters, sediment or soil, AEs will degrade through aerobic and anaerobic processes or be taken up by plants and animals.
In the United Kingdom, the environmental regulator permits only chemical additives which are classed as non hazardous to groundwater for fracturing fluids. [3] [4] [5] Operators are required to disclose the content of hydraulic fracturing fluids to the relevant environment agency [6] while the composition must be disclosed if the regulator demands it. [7]
Water samples collected by Pittsboro officials Friday morning show that a slug of 1,4-dioxane is just beginning to reach the town’s drinking water intake on the Haw River.