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MANUAL OF TREATMENT TECHNIQUES FOR MEETING THE INTERIM PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS
Citation:
Sorg, T., O. Love, Jr., AND G. Logsdon. MANUAL OF TREATMENT TECHNIQUES FOR MEETING THE INTERIM PRIMARY DRINKING WATER REGULATIONS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/8-77/005 (NTIS PB268029).
Description:
Following the passage on December 16, 1974, of Public Law 93-523, The Safe Drinking Water Act, the Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations were promulgated on December 24, 1975, to take effect June 24, 1977. These regulations set Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL) for ten inorganic constituents, turbidity, coliform organisms, six pesticides and radionuclides. PL-93-523 stated that the Primary Drinking Water Regulations should consist of MCLs as well as a statement of treatment technology that could be used to achieve these levels. This document provides that information. It contains five sections as related to the five groups of Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations noted above. This document, based on the literature and the research being conducted by the Water Supply Research Division, is not meant to stifle innovative treatment technology. It attempts to be a statement of technology known at the time of the effective date of the Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations that will allow utilities, with assistance from their consulting engineers, to apply whatever treatment might be necessary to improve their drinking water quality such that it meets the Interim Primary Drinking Water Regulations.