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California Water Board staff is considering a hexavalent chromium maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 10 μg/L. This is five hundred times higher than the public health goal of 0.02 μg/L set by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in 2011. It has taken five years for the State Board to come to the same conclusion as it had years before, despite advances in treatment technology and historic levels of funding for drinking water solutions, and all while communities bore the risk of unsafe drinking water.
In 2001, the California Legislature required the Department of Health Services to develop a primary drinking water standard for hexavalent chromium by 2003 require the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt primary drinking water standards at a level as close as feasible to the corresponding public health goal, placing primary emphasis on the protection of public health, and avoiding, to the extent technologically and economically feasible, any significant risk to public health.
https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/drinking_water/certlic/drinkingwater/documents/chromium6/notice_cr6wrkshp_040522.pdf | Posted on 24/Mar/2022 20:01:01
