Adoption and Safe Families Act

Problem(s) addressed by the statute: The Clean Water Act (CWA) was created to protect the health and wellbeing of public and environment form harmful pollutions that were being discharged into the water supply. Like others federal law CAA is overseas by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by creating/following National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES), along with other regulations and standards. Structure of statute: The Clean Water Act (CWA) and the basis of it all…

home. (30)” This is disturbing to say the least. In fact, on the Environmental Protection Agencies web site the Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing: Under the Safe Drinking Water Act,” I found that the fluids used in fracking are specifically stated under provision b as being excluded. The only thing regulated under the safe drinking water act for fracking is the use of diesel fuel which ironically is another form of a…

The Environmental Protection Agency defines frackings as “A well stimulation process used to maximize the extraction of underground resources; including oil, natural gas, geothermal energy, and even water”(Environmental Protection Agency). This process, employed to release natural gas involves drilling deep into the ground and shooting a high pressure water solution into rock formations in order to release the gas inside. Although the history of fracking can be traced back to the 1940’s, it…

Many of us would like to understand what Arsenic is and why this element is in our drinking water. To begin with our introduction to Arsenic, we should all understand that it is a semi-metal element from the periodic table that we are mostly familiar with. It is odorless and has no type of specific taste to the human tongue. It is mostly sourced from natural deposits in the Earth, however, it’s also known to be sourced from agricultural and industrial practices all over the world. It is simply…

Hydraulic fracturing is a process which releases natural gas from shale and brings it to the worlds surface. It requires injecting more than a million gallons of chemicals such as lead, uranium, methanol, and mercury. Fracking also needs sand and water. The amount of water that is used is one to eight million gallons per job. It takes 400 tanker trucks to carry water too and from the sites. The chemicals, sand, and water are then put down a horizontally drilled well at a high pressure. The…

Trichloroethylene (TCE) is defined as a Priority Pollutant covered under the Clean Water Act. The chemical is an organic vapor, and is a component used in degreasing, distillation, and painting operations (Woodside, 1999). Trichloroethylene is a liquid used as a solvent, and in other compounds (Environmental Protection Agency, 2011). Annually 10 million pounds of Trichloroethylene is used to manufacture Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) (Gilbert & Heuvel, 2014). While current figures are not…

certain communities. In 2011, the CDC strengthened its standards of lead safety by lowering the allowable lead levels from 8 percent to 0.25 percent of total surface area inside piping through the Reduction of Lead in Drinking Water Act (RLDWA). Even though there is no known “safe” level of lead contamination, official public health measure are enacted only when the saturation of lead in a child’s blood has reached the threshold of 5 micrograms per deciliter or…

The Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) was adopted by Congress in 1974 to secure general wellbeing by controlling the country 's open drinking water supply. The law was altered in 1986 and 1996 and requires numerous activities to secure drinking water and its sources—streams, lakes, stores, springs, and ground water wells. (SDWA does not control private wells which serve less than 25 people.) SDWA approves the United States Environmental Assurance Agency (US EPA) to set national health based…

tap water. Researcher, Mona Hanna, includes in her article, "Bacteria, including Escherichia coli, were detected in the distribution system, resulting in Safe Drinking Water Act violation. Additional disinfection to control bacteria spurred formation of disinfection byproducts including total trihalomethanes, resulting in Safe Drinking Water Act violations for…

Alternative 3: Private Lead Service Line Replacement Program The final policy alternative is the creation of a private LSL replacement program. Lead service lines are common in housing built before the 1986 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments that banned the use of lead-containing pipes. Municipalities are responsible for the portion of the water service line running from the water main to the curb stop, and private property owners are responsible for the portion running from the curb stop to the…