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EPA SETS UP NATIONAL DRINKING WATER CONTAMINANT OCCURRENCE DATABASE
Release Date: 08/05/99
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1999
EPA SETS UP NATIONAL DRINKING WATER
CONTAMINANT OCCURRENCE DATABASE
CONTAMINANT OCCURRENCE DATABASE
As a drinking water public right-to-know initiative, EPA has set up a National Drinking Water Contaminant Occurrence Database, the first national database to contain information on regulated and unregulated contaminants in public drinking water systems and their source water supplies. Accessible through the Internet, the database makes available data not previously accessible to the public about contaminants in drinking water. The database will continue to be upgraded to provide current data. EPA believes the public should use this data cautiously since many of the contaminants occur below health effects or regulatory levels or are rarely found. The database is a key provision of the l996 Safe Drinking Water Act, which directed EPA to assemble and maintain the database from information on the occurrence of both regulated and unregulated contaminants in public water systems and from reliable information from other public and private sources. It also will be used widely for public health, scientific and regulatory purposes. The database is available at: https://www.epa.gov/ncod. The general public can get additional information from EPA’s drinking water Web site at: https://www.epa.gov/safewater, or by calling EPA’s drinking water hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
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