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 Regulatory Compliance
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Drinking Water
The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) and subsequent amendments
sets standards, or Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCL), for over 80 contaminants
using a process called risk assessment. The nation’s 55,000 Community Water
Systems (CWS) may use any state approved treatment method to comply with the
MCL, and must verify compliance through monitoring, testing, and reporting
to state public health and environmental agencies.
Chemicals and media used in the treatment must also conform to American
National Standards Institute / National Sanitation Foundation (ANSI / NSF)
Standard 60 for direct additives and Standard 61 for indirect additives.
Wastewater
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) created the system
known as The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) to
regulate point source discharges into the waters of the United States.
Standards were set at two levels of control; technology-based limits and
water-quality based limits, but also established new source performance
standards (NSPS) as more restrictive requirements for new sources. The
Clean Water Act (CWA) Amendments changed the emphasis from controlling
conventional to controlling toxic discharges by establishing a list of
priority pollutants.
Direct point source discharges, from publicly owned treatment works (POTW),
industrial facilities, and urban runoff, enter directly into the receiving
water body. Indirect point source discharges, from industrial and commercial
operations, enter a POTW and are addressed through the National Pretreatment
Program.
The Future
Regulatory standards will continue to evolve, becoming more
comprehensive and complex. As they do, ALTIVIA will continue to optimize
existing treatment processes and develop new and innovative technologies to
provide our customers with the lowest total treatment costs possible.
For more information, please contact our regulatory experts at 866-ALTIVIA.
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