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 |
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to the
tap water con-
fallout years of 1963-1966.
the peak
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