Drinking Water Standards Proposed For Perchlorate and VOC

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the agency’s decision to develop to regulate perchlorate in drinking water. The decision will lead to the development of the first-ever national standard for perchlorate. EPA expects to continue to evaluate potential perchlorate health effects and occurrence in public water systems. The agency will also evaluate the feasibility and affordability of treatment technologies to remove perchlorate and examine the costs and benefits of potential standards.

In a separate action, the agency is also plans to establish a drinking water standard to address a group of chemicals that may pose risks to human health. EPA will also be developing one regulation covering as many as 16 volatile organic compounds (VOCs), includes trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) as well as other regulated and some unregulated contaminants that are discharged from industrial operations. The VOC standard will be developed as part of EPA’s new strategy for drinking water to address contaminants as groups rather than individually in order to provide public health protections more quickly and also allow utilities to more effectively and efficiently plan for improvements.

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