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Tools to Help Small Drinking-Water Utilities Control Arsenic
Release Date: 12/14/2005
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Contact: Dale Kemery, 202-564-4355 / [email protected]
(12/14/05) EPA has released a set of user-friendly multimedia products to help small drinking-water utilities meet revised regulations to control arsenic. The tools will provide owners and operators with information to guide them in making treatment decisions.
"This arsenic treatment tool kit provides useful information to increase local options and sustainable solutions," said Assistant Administrator for Water Benjamin H. Grumbles.
The anchor product of this suite of tools is the Arsenic Virtual Trade Show, a learning portal for arsenic-treatment technology. The website features a database of vendors, a treatment "decision tree," and tips for evaluating and selecting treatment providers. Other products being released include:
· A brochure, Evaluating Arsenic Treatment Providers: A Guide for Public Water Systems, which includes a checklist of questions that owners and operators of small utilities should ask treatment providers.
· A CD-ROM disk, Interactive Workshop on Arsenic Removal from Drinking Water, features commentary from the nation's top experts. The disk is a companion to 11 arsenic-training events EPA held across the country during 2005.
· A DVD collection of videos, the Arsenic Treatment Technology Showcase, which highlights arsenic treatment technologies currently being pilot-tested through EPA's Arsenic Treatment Technology Demonstration Program.
In 2001, EPA revised the regulation for arsenic in drinking water to lower the maximum allowable level from 50 parts per billion to 10 parts per billion. The new standard becomes effective on Jan. 23, 2006. The Agency estimates that more than 90 percent of the systems affected by the revised rule are small, serving populations of 3,300 or fewer.
To launch the Arsenic Virtual Trade Show, go to: http://www.arsenictradeshow.org
More information about arsenic and drinking water is at: https://www.epa.gov/safewater/arsenic
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