Water utilities across the country will have until 2029 to comply with EPA limits on 'forever chemicals' in drinking water. Orange County got a head start.
John Brundahl , production superintendent, Todd Colvin, chief water systems operator, and Mark Toy, general manager, run the PFAS treatment plant at the Yorba Linda Water District in Orange County .If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. Yorba Linda is a small, sunny city southeast of Los Angeles.
Every gallon of water pumped from the district’s wells now passes through a few of these tanks for treatment, before going to the homes and businesses of 80,000 people.The Yorba Linda Water District built the largest PFAS water treatment plant of its kind because it had a big PFAS problem. In February 2020, the water district had to take all of its wells offline because they were drawing groundwater contaminated with PFAS.
Those state limits, established four years before the EPA set national limits, put California’s cities ahead of the curve. Anaheim is a larger city, and the public water utility there can provide water for upwards of 500,000 people a day. Back in 2020, when California’s PFAS rules came into effect, Anaheim took 14 of its 19 wells offline for excess PFAS.
“We find it in some of just the natural runoff that goes into the river during the winter, during storms,” said, executive director of water quality and technical resources at the Orange County Water District. ”We also detect some PFAS coming out of the sewage treatment plants upstream.”PFAS is found in runoff that makes its way into the Santa Ana River during the winter, says Jason Dadakis, executive director for water quality and technical resources for the Orange County Water District.
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