Providing safe, reliable drinking water is a high priority in Ripon.<\/p>\n
At Tuesday\u2019s Ripon City Council meeting, Public Works Director James Pease addressed this in regards to the drinking water standards established by the State of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n
The City of Ripon\u2019s Well 19, which was constructed in 2022, was recently discovered to contain hexavalent chromium otherwise knowns as Chromium-6.<\/p>\n
The drinking water locally is routinely tested and the results of those tests are monitored by the City and the State of California Division of Drinking Water in an effort to ensure the concentration of any regulated constituent present in the water does not exceed the allowable regulatory limit.<\/p>\n
\u201cCalifornia is the first state in the nation to set a drinking water standard for Chromium-6, which is found naturally in rocks, plants, humans, and animals,\u201d Pease said.<\/p>\n
He noted that the most common forms of chromium that occur in natural water are trivalent chromium (Chromium-3) and Chromium-6.<\/p>\n
\u201cLong-term exposure to elevated levels of Chromium-6 may pose health risks,\u201d Pease added.<\/p>\n
But thanks to routine water monitoring \u2013 in particular, Well 19 at the Mistlin Sports Park \u2013 the City of Ripon currently meets all applicable requirements and remains committed to full regulatory compliance through routine monitoring and sampling, he said to elected leaders.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe City has been monitoring this condition for some time and is required to eliminate any exceedance by October 2027,\u201d said Pease.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, residents are being directed to the City\u2019s website (www.cityofripon.org\/DocumentCenter\/View\/1622\/Chromium-6-Public-Notification-Letter<\/a>) as well as other websites (www.waterboards.ca.gov\/drinking<\/a>) for concerns and additional information.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough recent test results exceed the new state standards for Chromium-6, there is no immediate health risk. Customers do not need to take any special precautions such as boiling water or limiting water use.<\/p>\n \u201cThe state\u2019s new regulatory limit is based on potential health effects from long-term exposure, not short-term consumption,\u201d Pease said.<\/p>\n The City of Ripon is actively working toward compliance with the new regulations.<\/p>\n A compliance plan along with implementation timeline are being developed and will be submitted to the State of California.<\/p>\n \u201cThis plan will outline the stops the City will take to achieve compliance with the Chromium-6 Maximum Contaminant Level prior to the October 2027 compliance deadline,\u201d said Pease.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Providing safe, reliable drinking water is a high priority in Ripon. At Tuesday\u2019s Ripon City Council meeting, Public…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-412932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}