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EPA's Consumer Confidence Rule of 1998 requires community public water suppliers to provide customers with annual reports of drinking water quality, called Consumer Confidence Reports (CCR). [24] Each year by July 1 anyone connected to a public water system should receive in the mail an annual water quality report that tells where your water ...
[4] [5] The United States Geological Survey reported in 2023 that at least 45% of drinking water in the United States contains per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), commonly referred to as "forever chemicals." [6] [7] The EPA has been able to identify around 70,000 water bodies that do not meet revised water quality standards due to PFAS. [2]
The report noted that no one agency was responsible for the water quality: The Army Corps of Engineers treated the water, WASA delivered it, and the EPA performed the quality checks. [32] It urged the Council to assume authority for the entire system. [32] In the last six months of 2004, 90 percent of homes tested had lead levels of 59 ppb or ...
The EPA on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, proposed limiting the amount of harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water to the lowest level that tests can detect. (Travis Long/The News & Observer ...
Ohio governor Mike DeWine and administrator of the EPA Michael Regan drank tap water in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023, after a train derailment to show that the water was safe. [208] The derailment caused a fire and the release of toxic chemicals into the air and water making locals and environmental groups concerned for the quality ...
The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires each governing jurisdiction (states, territories, and covered tribal entities) to submit a set of biennial reports on the quality of water in their area. These reports are known as the 303(d) and 305(b) reports, named for their respective CWA provisions, and are submitted to, and approved by, EPA. [63]
The report also said that the Navy did not provide the EPA inspection team with the requested water tank inspection reports and that representatives of the Navy water system “stated that several ...
The Water Quality Act of 1965 required states to issue water quality standards for interstate waters, and authorized the newly created Federal Water Pollution Control Administration to set standards where states failed to do so. No mechanism for federal enforcement was established.