This drinking water quality report shows results of tests conducted by the City of Bellingham water utility and provided to the Environmental Working Group (EWG) by the Washington State Department of Health.
It is part of EWG's national database that includes 47,667 drinking water utilities and 20 million test results. Water utilities nationwide detected more than 300 pollutants between 2004 and 2009. More than half of these chemicals are unregulated, legal in any amount.
Despite this widespread contamination, the federal government invests few resources to protecting rivers, reservoirs, and groundwater from pollution in the first place. The information below summarizes test results for this utility and lists potential health concerns. Click here for link to Report
Reported EPA violations: Failure to report information to the public or state agency in the Consumer Confidence Report 07/01/2006 - 08/22/2006
Thanks for posting this information. It is interesting to see how we are exposed to unhealthy levels of chemicals used for water disinfection. Too bad this only reports up to 2006. I would be interested in knowing what the current levels of these chemicals are because they have surely increased as water quality has declined.
ReplyDeleteWendy Harris