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February 08, 2005
Water Warnings Scare Vallejo Residents
As reported in the Times-Herald, Vallejo, CA, which owns the Green Valley water treatment plant, sent out warnings to 2,800 customers telling of the long term dangers, including liver, kidney, and nervous system damage and even cancer.
The municipal water supply apparently failed the new Federal standards, tightened in 2004. Now, water providers serving fewer than 10,000 residents must monitor their water quality just as those over that level.
Vallejo officials are spending $820,000 on a new water treatment process to reduce the level of organic materials. Those materials can combine with chlorine used to treat the water to form disinfection byproducts that may cause health problems. They expect to have the new process in place in Green Valley by year's end and meet the new water standards by summer 2006.
It is wonderful that the Federal water quality standards have been strengthened to include our smallest water treatment facilities and protect those residents.
Posted by Stephen Betheil at February 8, 2005 09:33 PM
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