Arsenic treatment demonstrations

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has published a notice that it intends to conduct a demonstration program on the treatment (reduction and/or removal) of arsenic in drinking water. The U.S. EPA recently promulgated a standard that limits arsenic concentrations in drinking water to 10 ug/l. Through this demonstration program the U.S. EPA intends to identify and evaluate the ability of commercially available technologies and engineering or other approaches to cost effectively meet the new standard in small water systems (10,000 customers).

The U.S. EPA is inviting the public at large, governmental and regulatory agencies, public health agencies, and drinking water utilities to identify small water utilities that may be interested in hosting a demonstration at their facility. These utilities should be those that will require treatment to comply with the new arsenic standard. Details on participation in this study can be found at http://www.epa.gov/ORD/NRMRL/arsenic/. Interested facilities should submit the requested information by June 28, 2002.

For further information contact Robert Thurnau, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 26 West Martin Luther King Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45268, Tel: 513-569-7504.