Impact of EPA Drinking Water Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfectant ...

Impact of EPA Drinking Water Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfectant ... Impact of EPA Drinking Water Stage 2 Disinfectant and Disinfectant ...

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Amendments to Safe Drinking Water Act of 19744• Amendments to the SDWA in 1996 requireEPA to develop rules to balance the risksbetween microbial pathogens and disinfectionbyproducts (DBPs).• The Stage 1 Disinfectants and DisinfectionByproducts Rule and Interim Enhanced SurfaceWater Treatment Rule, promulgated inDecember 1998, were the first phase in arulemaking strategy required by Congress aspart of the 1996 Amendments to the SafeDrinking Water Act.Disinfection

Stage 2 Rule5• The Stage 2 Disinfectants and DisinfectionByproducts Rule (Stage 2 DBPR) builds upon theStage 1 DBPR to address higher risk public watersystems.• This final rule strengthens public health protectionby tightening compliance monitoring requirementsfor two groups of DBPs, trihalomethanes (TTHM)and haloacetic acids (HAA5).• Stage 2 DBPR requires systems to perform asystem evaluation to identify the locations withhigh DBP’s which become the systemscompliance sampling points.Disinfection

<strong>Stage</strong> 2 Rule5• The <strong>Stage</strong> 2 <strong>Disinfectant</strong>s <strong>and</strong> DisinfectionByproducts Rule (<strong>Stage</strong> 2 DBPR) builds upon the<strong>Stage</strong> 1 DBPR to address higher risk public watersystems.• This final rule strengthens public health protectionby tightening compliance monitoring requirementsfor two groups <strong>of</strong> DBPs, trihalomethanes (TTHM)<strong>and</strong> haloacetic acids (HAA5).• <strong>Stage</strong> 2 DBPR requires systems to perform asystem evaluation to identify the locations withhigh DBP’s which become the systemscompliance sampling points.Disinfection

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