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EPA to work with drinking water systems to monitor unregulated contaminants

Posted Wed, 2012/05/02 - 11:42am by RCAP

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on May 1 a list of 28 chemicals and two viruses that approximately 6,000 public water systems will monitor from 2013 to 2015 as part of the agency’s unregulated contaminant monitoring program, which collects data for contaminants suspected to be present in drinking water but that do not have health-based standards set under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Webcast on monitoring and assessment under the Clean Water Act

Posted Tue, 2010/03/30 - 11:35am by RCAP

EPA is announcing a Watershed Academy webcast on April 7, 2010 from 1:00 to 3:00 pm EDT titled "Monitoring and Assessment Under the on the Clean Water Act."

This is the third in a series of webcasts on the Clean Water Act (CWA). Earlier webcast topics included an introduction to the CWA and an introduction to water quality standards.

This webcast will focus on key aspects of monitoring and assessment under the CWA including: