Impact of Safe Drinking Water Act amendments of 1986 on selected utilities in North Carolina
Organic and microbial contaminants that are currently or are planned to be regulated under the 1986 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) were investigated in the following water supplies of the Urban Water Consortium established by The Water Resources Research Institute of The University of North Carolina: Burlington, Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA), Durham, High Point, Raleigh and Winston-Salem. A review of the NPDES permits in each of these water supply sources confirmed that only the water supplies for Raleigh and Winston-Salem are vulnerable to industrial waste from direct discharges (six and seven sources, respectively). Those listed for Raleigh, however, are classified as minor industrial dischargers by an EPA rating system. At High Point, vulnerability is not so much from industrial discharges as from the potential for accidental contamination due to leakage from several oil storage depots. Very few contaminants that are or will be regulated by the SDWA were uncovered in these NPDES permits. It appears that the SDWA amendments' requirement for removal of disinfection by-products will have a much greater impact on the six cities studied than will the regulations regarding SOCs and VOCs.
- Research Organization:
- North Carolina Water Resources Research Inst., Raleigh, NC (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 5217676
- Report Number(s):
- PB-92-183771/XAB; UNC-WRRI-91-256
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: See also PB87-205761. Prepared in cooperation with North Carolina Univ. at Chapel Hill. Dept. of Environmental Sciences and Engineering. Sponsored by Geological Survey, Reston, VA. Water Resources Div
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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