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EPA rule puts PFAS compliance timeline on small systems; technical options limited to removal for now
Summary
At an RCAP-hosted webinar, a technical presenter summarized EPA’s PFAS drinking-water rule, the 2024–2027 monitoring window, the April 26, 2029 enforcement date and the limited set of proven treatment options such as granular activated carbon, ion exchange and membrane filtration. MassDEP maintains a preapproved treatment list under 310 CMR 22.
Bridal Liam, a technical presenter, told attendees at an RCAP Solutions webinar that public water systems in Massachusetts must plan now to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s new PFAS drinking-water rule, including an enforcement date that he said could allow EPA to begin issuing violations on April 26, 2029.
The regulation matters because, the presenter said, initial monitoring from 2024 through 2027 has already shown “about 150 water systems in Massachusetts [have] PFAS exceeding the federal MCLs,” and those exceedances include community and non-transient noncommunity systems. He added that the compliance schedule and the long lead time for planning and constructing treatment mean systems should begin…
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