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And You Thought the Lead and Copper Rule Was Challenging…
Author(s) -
Grunenfelder Gregg
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2001.tb09120.x
Subject(s) - groundwater , lead (geology) , water supply , environmental science , environmental planning , business , natural resource economics , water resource management , risk analysis (engineering) , environmental engineering , economics , engineering , geology , geotechnical engineering , geomorphology
This article discusses three new rules for arsenic, groundwater, and radon, the result of the 1996 amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, and the dramatic impact on small systems they will have. Because of the sources of supply typically serving small systems (relatively shallow groundwater sources) and because of the small rate bases available to those systems to pay implementation costs, small systems will be particularly affected.