Post Tagged with: "water quality"

As municipal water systems across the United States confront new PFAS regulations, utilities face a complex mix of technical, financial and operational decisions. We caught up with Sarah Johnson, vice president of engineering at AqueoUS Vets® who shared some practical insights on PFAS treatment designRead More

By Michael Warady Imagine a newly expanded municipal service area — complete with state-of-the-art SCADA systems, pressure-zoned districts, energy-efficient pumps and upgraded mainline materials. The project was hailed as a sustainability success: reduced energy consumption, lower water loss and optimized distribution performance. But within aRead More

If you haven’t heard, there’s still a lot going on with regulatory and legal action related to PFAS and other “forever chemicals.” To get an update, we sat down with Ken Sansone, senior partner at SL Environmental Law Group, to discuss recent activity. Sansone focusesRead More

In May, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the City of Flint, Michigan, has completed all requirements of a 2016 EPA Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) emergency order and it will now be lifted. EPA said over the last nine years, theRead More

A decision by the United States Supreme Court in a Clean Water Act case in March drew mixed reactions, with some saying the ruling could have implications for the future quality of U.S. water bodies. The Supreme Court ruling of mention was the case, City andRead More

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will keep the current National Primary Drinking Water Regulations (NPDWR) for perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), which set nationwide limits for these “forever chemicals” in drinking water. The agency is committed to addressing PFOA andRead More

In-Situ Inc., a provider of water quality and flow monitoring instrumentation, announced it is welcoming Melody White to the company as a new principal technical consultant. With more than 25 years of experience supporting water operators across the United States and internationally, White brings a wealth of knowledgeRead More

The City of Vancouver, Washington, has selected Stantec to design a treatment system to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from a high-volume water station — with the goal of providing cleaner, more reliable drinking water for the community. Stantec will also provide engineering servicesRead More

A new study published today in the journal, Risk Analysis, a publication of the Society for Risk Analysis, maps which U.S. counties are most at risk for water quality and how ownership and inequality intersect. This study claims to be the first to combine nationwideRead More

With legislation signed by Utah Gov. Spencer Cox in late March, the state officially became the first in the nation to prohibit the addition of fluoride to public drinking water systems. The bill officially takes effect in May. According to the Association of Metropolitan WaterRead More