Point-of-entry drinking-water treatment systems for Superfund applications

Technical Report · Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1989

OSTI ID:5719654

Chambers, C D; Janszen, T A

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and State Superfund agencies need a technical manual to assist their personnel in the selection of an effective drinking-water treatment system for individual households in areas where the drinking water has been adversely affected by Superfund site contaminants and no other alternative water supply is available or feasible. Commercially available water treatment systems for individual households are of two basic types: point-of-use (POU) and point-of-entry (POE). A POU device consists of equipment applied to selected water taps to reduce contaminants at each tap. A POE device consists of equipment to reduce the contaminants in the water distributed throughout the entire structure of a house. The study was initiated to collect monitoring, operation and maintenance, performance, and design data on existing Superfund POE water-treatment systems. Evaluation of the collected data showed that the existing data are not sufficient for the preparation of a technical assistance document to meet the objectives of EPA and State Superfund personnel.

• Research Organization: PEI Associates, Inc., Cincinnati, OH (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5719654
• Report Number(s): PB-89-195010/XAB
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
29 ENERGY PLANNING
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WATER TREATMENT
HOUSEHOLDS
SUPERFUND
WATER POLLUTION CONTROL
WATER SUPPLY
ACTIVATED CARBON
COST ESTIMATION
DATA ANALYSIS
DESIGN
EQUIPMENT
LAND POLLUTION
MATERIALS HANDLING
WASTE DISPOSAL
ADSORBENTS
CARBON
CONTROL
ELEMENTS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LAWS
MANAGEMENT
NONMETALS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION CONTROL
POLLUTION LAWS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER
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Aquatic- Regulations - (-1989)
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