Report Title:

Safe Drinking Water; Surface Water System Standards

Description:

Reduces acceptable levels of heterotrophic bacteria in surface water systems from 500/ml to 100/ml.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1035

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

relating to safe drinking water.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 340E-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (a) to read as follows:

"(a) The director shall [promulgate] adopt and enforce State Primary Drinking Water Regulations and may [promulgate] adopt and enforce State Secondary Drinking Water Regulations. State Primary Drinking Water Regulations shall protect health to the extent feasible, using technology, treatment techniques, and other means [which] that are generally available, taking cost into consideration. Maximum contaminant levels covered by revised National Primary Drinking Water Regulations shall be set at a level at which no known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons occur and [which] that allows an adequate margin of safety. Treatment techniques covered by revised National Primary Drinking Water Regulations shall require treatment necessary to prevent known or anticipated adverse effects on the health of persons. The State Primary Drinking Water Regulations shall be not less stringent than the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations in effect at that time[.]; provided that with regard to the department's surface water treatment rules:

(1) The maximum contaminant level standard for the existence of heterotrophic plate count bacteria in public water systems that use a surface water source or groundwater under the direct influence of surface water shall be not more than one hundred bacteria colonies per milliliter in at least ninety-five per cent of the samples from the water distribution system each month for any two consecutive months; and

(2) Measurements for the existence of heterotrophic plate count bacteria shall be made at the same frequency and locations at which total coliform measurements are made, unless a modified sampling schedule is approved by the director."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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