Water Quality Standards Chloride The sections that follow give general descriptions of our chemical and radiological results. Before to define a standard for freshness of the water. solids the We use, ing water, recommended limits for only two of the above the recommended limits of U.S. Public Health Service. 5900 me/1 (b) The Advisory Committee, in considering limits which should be established For drink- but only as a guide and reference for the reader, 45 mg/l 250 mg/l Total dissolved our results could be compared, we needed 250 mg/1 Nitrate Sulfate Rat2® The following TI3T> sr90, sr89 nuclides, Radium-226 (3nuc/1) and Strontium-90 (10juc/1). two paragraphs are quoted from Public Water supplies shall be approved without further consideration of Health Service Publication 956. (a) The following chemical substance should not be present in a water supply in excess of other sources of radioactivity the listed concentrations when other more suitable supplies are or can be made available: contains these Substances in amounts not exceeding 3 and intake of Radium-226 and Strontium-90 when the water 1Owic/1, respectively. Bikini Island Cistern Water the limits established for drinking Unfiltered water samples were collected on June 21, rainwater cisterns 1975, from the connected to Bldgs. 5 and 24 and the school on Bikini Island. The available chemical and, radiological data from these samples are given in Table 2. The data summarized water by the U.S. Service. of indicate that the water appears to The total coliform content the water was not determined. The measured radionuclides were also low in concentration in these samples. in the table Public Health The measured tions are roughly two 06, concentra— to three times the 1974 average concentration of 0.5 be chemically adequate for drinking pCi/litre in New York City tap purposes, water as was anticipated, as but are equivalent well as suitable for any household or average New York City agricultural use. centrations measured during Chloride and sul- fate concentrations are well below wea | Terre ere opr ett ten core ape ee ee ee to the tap water con- fallout years of 1963-1966. the peak The iG FESTTO