Water Quality

Safe, clean, affordable drinking water is a priority for SCWC and its members. SCWC monitors regional and statewide water quality issues and actively works to ensure science-based research and standards guide state and federal regulations.

Clean Water Act
Enacted by Congress in 1972, the Clean Water Act is one of the nation’s most sweeping environmental laws, and it continues to make a broad, over-arching impact on the way water quality is regulated in California, and nationwide.

Safe Drinking Water Act
The Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 ensures control of substances with the greatest risk to water quality; prevents contamination of source water; and informs consumers of contaminant levels and health risks in their water supply.

TASK FORCE CO-CHAIRS:

David Pedersen, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
Dawn Taffler, Kennedy Jenks

January 18, 2022

Public Health Goal Science Policy White Paper, published January 2022

Letter to California Secretary of Environmental Protection Jared Blumenfeld, sent on January 18, 2022

May 15, 2020
Response to the State Water Resources Control Board on its white paper on economic feasibility analysis in consideration of a hexavalent chromium MCL

March 27, 2020
Blog: Coronavirus and Your Water

March 2, 2019
Letter to E. Joaquin Esquivel, Chair of State Water Resources Control Board from SCWC Regarding Economic Feasibility of Maximum Contaminant Levels (MCLs)

February 19, 2019
Position Statement on Economic Feasibility Guidance for Maximum Contaminant Levels

April 15, 2015
LA Times: California to set chromium limit for drinking water supplies