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OWASA has 343 miles of water mains and 294 miles of sewers. Its water is treated at the Jones Ferry Road Water Treatment Plant. [2] The organization was founded in 1977, [2] to plan and manage Orange County's water supply after the county had experienced years of recurring droughts. [3] OWASA has a rolling 5-year capital improvement plan for ...
The new DEQ surface water plan is modeled after an approach Michigan regulators have taken to address PFOA and PFOS that were being sent from industrial plants, through public wastewater treatment ...
The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality wants to regulate eight specific chemicals that are found in drinking water in North Carolina, compounds understood well enough to determine their safe ...
American Water Works Association (AWWA) is an international non-profit, scientific and educational association founded to improve water quality and supply. Established in 1881, it is a lobbying organization representing a membership (as of 2024) of around 50,000 members worldwide.
North Carolinians receive just one-fifth of the protections from 1,4-dioxane that a water quality standard would offer, according to a human health risk assessment DEQ submitted to the General ...
North Carolina Land and Water Fund (NCLWF) was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1996 as the 'Clean Water Management Trust Fund'. [1] The fund is an independent non-regulatory agency housed in the Division of Land and Water Stewardship in the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources .
In a historic announcement earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its first-ever drinking water standards to protect people against toxic "forever chemicals." ...
Dalecarlia Water Treatment Plant, Washington, D.C. Water treatment is any process that improves the quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recreation or many other uses, including being safely returned to the environment.