NOTE:  The hearing below is very important to Monongalia County, as

 

well as to the whole state.  We need a drinking water standard of below

 

500 parts per million TDS (total dissolved solids) as in Pennsylvania,

 

to protect our public water sources and to help prevent

 

chemical substances and algae from killing the living things in streams,

 

including the fish, mussels and other critters.

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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 @ 4:45 PM
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    Water Quality Standards Public Meeting May 19

Charleston, W.Va. – The Department of Environmental Protection’s Water Quality
Standards Program is having a public meeting to discuss issues related to the
agency’s triennial review of the state’s water quality standards.

Staff from the Water Quality Standards program will discuss proposed updates to
47CSR2 “Requirements Governing Water Quality Standards” which will include
changes to the criteria for iron, total dissolved solids, nutrients and other
parameters to protect the state’s waterways.

The meeting will take place Wednesday, May 19 from 1:30 to 3:30 in the Coopers
Rock conference room of the Department of Environmental Protection, located at
601 57th Street SE, Charleston, WV.