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This is a list of Superfund sites in Missouri designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Approximately 18,000 systems are transient, non-community water systems (such as rural gas stations or campgrounds). [3] Eight percent of the Community Water Systems—large municipal water systems—provide water to 82 percent of the US population. [4] The SDWA authorized the EPA to promulgate regulations regarding water supply.
Some state laws and regulations use the term "maximum contaminant level" to refer to MCLs promulgated within a state pursuant either to the federal SDWA or state law; for example, the New Jersey Safe Drinking Water Act. [8] In some cases, a state may issue an MCL for a contaminant that has not been regulated by EPA under federal law.
EPA poster explaining public water systems and Consumer Confidence Reports. The SDWA requires EPA to issue federal regulations for public water systems. [16] [17] There are no federal regulations covering private drinking water wells, although some state and local governments have issued rules for these wells.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has defined three types of public water systems: Community Water System (CWS). A public water system that supplies water to the same population year-round. Non-Transient Non-Community Water System (NTNCWS). A public water system that regularly supplies water to at least 25 of the same ...
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is scheduling different water systems throughout the state for the more than 1,000 public water systems that include municipalities, rural water ...
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
The wells are among those the BWS shut down and sealed off as a precaution after jet fuel from Red Hill contaminated the Navy’s Oahu water system, which serves 93, 000 people, in November 2021.