Ground Water Contamination and Protection: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Toxic Substances and Environmental Oversight of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, June 17, 20; and July 16, 1985, Parts 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - Drinking water |
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Page 91 - EPA, the Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act...
Page 211 - An aquifer or a portion thereof which meets the criteria for an "underground source of drinking water" in §146.3 may be determined under 40 CFR 144.8 to be an "exempted aquifer" if it meets the following criteria: (a) It does not currently serve as a source of drinking water...
Page 82 - Act (CAA); the Clean Water Act (CWA); the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or "Superfund...
Page 211 - Class ill well mining area subject to subsidence or catastrophic collapse; or (c) The total dissolved solids content of the ground water is more than 3,000 and less than 10,000 mg/1 and it is not reasonably expected to supply a public water system.
Page 210 - Underground injection endangers drinking water sources if such Injection may result in the presence in underground water which supplies or can reasonably be expected to supply any public water system of any contaminant, and if the presence of such contaminant may result in such system's not complying with any national primary drinking water regulation or may otherwise adversely affect the health of persons.
Page 17 - Measured parameters include depth to the water table, recharge, aquifer media, soil media, topography, impact of the vadose zone, and hydraulic conductivity of the aquifer; the beginning letter of key words in these parameters forms the acronym DRASTIC.
Page 243 - Even in a single state, there are extremely wide ranges of conditions of not only precipitation but geology and soil conditions that affect not only the quantitites of elements, such as nitrate, entering groundwater but also greatly affecting the rate at which these quantities may be transported within the soil. We simply see no way any single piece of legislation could address the nearly infinite number of combinations of conditions to best manage nutrients in the environment. - 12 4. There is a...
Page 177 - Agency to track compliance with the Clean Air Act, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the Clean Water Act, and other environmental statutes.
Page 63 - The eight mountain states of Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming have more senators than representatives (14).
Page 191 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee. My name is Robert Watson.