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A man came to our home and tested our drinking water and tried to sale us a water filter. Someone told me that EPA does not sale products just recommends them. Is this a scam?
http://epa.gov/safewater/
If this is true, you should contact your local police department and also call epa in your state. I would also report it to the inspector general. Think about elderly people who these guys may really prey on with this scheme. You need to get the warning out.
EPA can and will inspect and take water samples in a house. They may even recommend a general type of water filter that you can buy, but they should never do the selling. That would be illegal.
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That is safe as computed by the EPA scientists responsible for determining such things.
The site at nteu280 dot org (web addresses in questions do not work) raises questions about fluoride and arsenic.
Hmmm... Let us remove the abbreviate form, EPA, and replace it with the anonymous faces that comprise it, and now let us give these faces names with personnas.
What's my point? The EPA is but a host of men and women -- primarily men -- just a infinitesimal handful, who determine the health of some 300 million people.
Once we can better put the like of this into context, we can not only ask why but we can dictate what is to be done, not as scientists but as human beings.
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From my research the EPA limit for chlorine in drinming water is 4mg/L or 4parts per million. I want to know EPA's standard for the maximum amount of drinking water that can be consumed and over what time period if the water is at the maximum alowable level?
Chlorine (as Cl2) MRDLG=4 MRDL=4.0
The notes that go with the EPA 4 mg/L limit are
Definitions:
Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) - The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water. MCLs are set as close to MCLGs as feasible using the best available treatment technology and taking cost into consideration. MCLs are enforceable standards.
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) - The level of a contaminant in drinking water below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MCLGs allow for a margin of safety and are non-enforceable public health goals.
Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level (MRDL) - The highest level of a disinfectant allowed in drinking water. There is convincing evidence that addition of a disinfectant is necessary for control of microbial contaminants.
Maximum Residual Disinfectant Level Goal (MRDLG) - The level of a drinking water disinfectant below which there is no known or expected risk to health. MRDLGs do not reflect the benefits of the use of disinfectants to control microbial contaminants.
The more detailed regulations can be found at the second two references.
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You can find the USEPA information here. The answer is that EPA has no real limit, the states have taken the lead on that.
The U.S. EPA Secondary Drinking Standard for Aluminum is listed as "0.05 to 0.2 mg/L," or 50 to 200 ppb. The alleged basis for this secondary or "nuisance" standard is that it causes color and scale or sedimentation.
For the full guidance, see:
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/consumer/2n dstandards.html
For all the other standards, however, only one number is given. Of course pH has two numbers to describe the range (6.5 to 8.5), but I can't imagine that this is the case for Aluminum. So which is the standard -- 0.05 or 0.2??? Does anyone know why there are two numbers?
You can read a good summary at the reference. Remember that most water systems use aluminum salts to purify drinking water (alum or PAC). The voluntary limit varies based on whether the system uses those salts in the purification process. Even at the higher level, you get very little of your daily Al from water.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Sept. 3 announced that it is distributing nearly $1,284,000 to Idaho in the form of a cooperative agreement for assessing and cleaning up underground storage tank petroleum leaks.
EPA’s agreement is with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will be used to oversee assessment and cleanup of leaks from underground storage tanks or directly paying for assessment and cleanup of leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to perform the cleanup, or the cleanup is an emergency response, EPA said in a release.
EPA said the greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater.
“Protecting Idaho’s ground water starts with preventing leaks from underground storage tanks,” said Michelle Pirzadeh, EPA acting regional administrator in Seattle. “Since many people in Idaho depend on ground water for their drinking water, these Recovery Act funds will play a vital role in protecting public health, safeguarding the environment and energizing local economies.”
...Coliform rising, EPA coming in - GloucesterTimes.com, Gloucester, MA
Day 13 of Gloucester's water-boil emergency was a step back for the city yesterday, with the latest test results showing water samples taken Monday — when state and local officials regrouped in the first "water summit" — showed the second highest number of bacteria hits since the trouble started.
The tests released yesterday showed 18 out of 38 sites tested came back positive for coliform on Monday. The previous high was 21 out of 28 sites tested on Aug. 21, the day the boil order started.
And as the indefinite boil order drags on, additional layers of outside assistance are adding their voices to the effort — the latest being federal experts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, who announced to city officials yesterday that they will be arriving soon.
If EPA officials arrive in Gloucester today, they will be greeted by a second "water summit," this one at 10 a.m. at Addison Gilbert Hospital.
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