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EPA Lowers Allowed Arsenic in Drinking Water

The EPA recently lowered the amount of arsenic allowed in our nation’s drinking water from 0.050 milligrams per liter (mg/L) to 0.010 mg/L, effective January 2006.

A milligram per liter is the same as 1 teaspoon in 1,320 gallons.

Tucson Water will not have difficulty meeting the new standard because most of our wells currently contain arsenic below 0.010 mg/L except for two wells in our main distribution system which in 2003 had a level of 0.014 mg/L and 0.010 mg/L respectively.

These wells will be closed or the water will be blended with other wells so that the arsenic is diluted to a safe level.

One isolated water system is served solely by a single well where the arsenic level is greater than 0.010 mg/L.

At this site Tucson Water and the American Water Works Research Foundation project have been evaluating the use of specialized treatment filters designed to remove arsenic from water and the possibility of drilling a new well.

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