Law in Place for Lead Regulation in Water
The Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act are in place for the regulation of lead in the water.
The Clean Water Act prohibits anyone from discharging pollutants, including lead, through a point source into a water of the United Sates unless they have a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.
In the Safe Drinking Water Act, lead in drinking water is regulated under the Lead and Copper Rule, that is if lead concentration exceed an action level of 15 ppl or copper concentrations exceed an action level of 1.3 ppm in more than 10 percent of customer taps sampled, the system must undertake a number of additional actions to control corrosion.
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