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12/20/2024
WT Staff
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December 20, 2024 101 pm PST
Safe Drinking Water Act
Fifty years ago this week, national legislation was passed to ensure a consistent quality of drinking water for the American people. The US Environmental Protection Agency has responsibility to manage and enforce the Safe Drinking Water Act, ensuring public safety and inspiring public confidence in the nation's municipal drinking water.
California State Water Resources Control Board supports 7408 licensed drinking water facilities, working to ensure that the standards are maintained from source water testing through treatment and distribution right to the tap. Drinking water supplies are challenged by floods and drought, wildfires, intermittent source water contamination from spills and cyanobacteria, even the chemistry of disinfection poses a threat to drinking water safety. Water technicians and inspectors do their part to daily meet or exceed SDWA standards, alerting their customers with BWAs when necessary to maintain safety. All federal, state and local drinking water facility personnel are to be commended for their service.
See how drinking water facility compliance compares in Ohio, New York, Georgia, Louisiana and California, here.
Streamflow Situation from the network of USGS river flow gauges in California
Fog, 43 degrees at Visalia Municipal Airport with an urgent weather message from the NWS concerning dense fog today until 1 pm. Patchy fog and 51 in San Francisco, watching for large westerly swell with breaking waves 15 to 18
feet, including breakers near 20 feet possible along favored west facing beaches Saturday. Sunny in Los Angeles, high Friday around 72. Mostly sunny in San Diego, high around 67 with high surf advisory in effect tomorrow.
Streamflows continue above seasonal normal through north coastal Region 1 and San Francisco watershed Region 2, seasonal normal water levels through the central coast, Los Angeles and San Diego watershed regions. Lahontan watershed continues in extreme drought in the southeast Inyo County, Amargosa River channel. Below normal drought rating continues in Colorado River watershed south central San Bernardino, Riverside and Imperial Counties.
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