September 22,2016
the staff of the Ridgewood bog
Ridgewood NJ, The Environmental Working Group (EWG) recently released a report raising concerns about the presence of chromium 6 – also known as hexavalent chromium – in public water supplies. Hexavalent chromium, a suspected carcinogen, is the contaminant made famous by the 2000 movie “Erin Brockovich.”
Ridgewood Water shares the EWG’s concern for water quality and public health protection. Water utilities currently monitor for “total” chromium, of which hexavalent chromium is a component. Most public water utilities, including Ridgewood Water, are in compliance with the existing standard.
The Safe Drinking Water Act, which was established to protect the quality of drinking water, requires a rigorous scientific approach for evaluating contaminants for regulation. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been looking at health effects data on hexavalent chromium. Ridgewood Water has been testing for this substance as part of the unregulated contaminant sampling program which provides data to EPA for scientific evaluation.
It’s important to remember that detecting a substance in water does not always imply a health risk. The key question that researchers seek to answer is whether the substance presents health concerns at the level it is detected. That’s why the federal regulatory process requires
EPA to examine potential health impacts of the substance, paths of exposure and occurrence data. A thorough evaluation of all this data increases the likelihood that new regulations will offer meaningful risk reduction. Ridgewood Water is committed to meeting all regulatory standards for public water supplies including any new requirements for hexavalent chromium that may be instituted.
For more information on chromium in drinking water, please refer to the following links:
https://www.epa.gov/dwstandardsregulations/chromium-drinking-water
https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/chromium/en/
Oh please everybody , Look in the Mirror, the big vehicles you drive, the reluctance to use public transportation, you demand continual upgrades on products that cause water pollution. and then you have nerve to blame the water companies or who are you going to blame. YOU ARE THE CONSUMER who continually funds these toxic products… you buyandbuyandbuy, well, bye bye, the party is over take the consequences and shut up. change your buying habits. Every product that comes out is rated by consumer advocate groups like EWG or Consumer Reports etc. AND YOU IGNORE those reports saying they are not valid.
And just as bad or worse is the report that super bugs resistant to antibiotics now reign supreme, but YOU and your DOCTOR both asked for and pushed antibiotics when they were not necessary and IGNORED the warnings that the super bugs were coming and to only take antibiotics when an infection was present and not to prevent and infection. You know that nerdy scientists who give warnings are to be ignored , right. They don’t wear fancy clothes and drive big impressive cars and live in big McMansions, so just ignore them. You are right. They are oh so boring people , slaving away in laboratories all day, and they don’t even know the names of the popular entertainers. Buy buy for now. bye bye buy buy