Clean Water Action: Chrome-6 Standard Set But Falls Short in Protecting Community Health
April 18, 2024
April 18, 2024
SACRAMENTO, California, April 18 -- Clean Water Action posted the following news release on April 17, 2024:
After seven years, the State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 ug/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 ug/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to ful . . .
After seven years, the State Water Board (SWB) finally set a needed limit for Hexavalent Chromium (chrome-6) in drinking water. Unfortunately, the set maximum limit of 10 ug/L fails to protect human health, being 500 times the Public Health Goal of 0.02 ug/L. Community partners from the Central Coast and Central Valley previously made comments before the SWB urging them to ful . . .