Developing A National Drinking Water Regulation for Disinfection of Ground Water |
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| Authors: | Bruce A Macler |
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| Institution: | Bruce A. Macler (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 75 Hawthorne St., W-6–1, San Francisco, CA 94105) is the manager for the Ground- water Disinfection Rule at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He is also EPA national expert on microbial risk assessment. He received his Ph.D. in biochemistry in 1981 from the University of California, Berkeley. His academic research was centered on environmental stressor effects on plant metabolism. Prior to joining EPA in 1989, he held a National Research Council associateship at NASA's Ames Research Center, studying biological regenerative life support systems for human space missions. |
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| Abstract: | The Safe Drinking Water Act directs EPA to promulgate requirements for disinfection of ground water-based drinking water systems. The Ground- water Disinfection Rule regulatory workgroup, made up of representatives from EPA, the states, and other interested parties, is actively considering the issues for the wide range of elements necessary to ensure a regulation that will protect public health and can be feasibly implemented. This regulation is likely to require disinfection of ground water sources and systems found to be contaminated or vulnerable to contamination. |
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