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VDH and DEQ outline PFAS and lead compliance timeline and DEQ27s source-assessment plan
Summary
Virginia Department of Health and the Department of Environmental Quality briefed the commission on PFAS and lead drinking-water requirements, estimated compliance costs, and DEQ27s planned PFAS source-assessments tied to recent exceedances.
State health and environmental officials told the Virginia Water Commission they are ramping monitoring and planning to implement federal PFAS and lead rules and to identify likely PFAS sources that require further action.
Duane Roadcap, director of the Virginia Department of Health (VDH) Office of Drinking Water, summarized a recently completed state study estimating the costs systems may face to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency27s (EPA) PFAS rule and the lead service-line replacement provisions of the Lead and Copper Rule. Roadcap said the state regulates about 2,860 public water systems and that community systems subject to the new rules total roughly 1,580.
"PFOA and PFOS have maximum contaminant levels of 4 parts per trillion," Roadcap said, summarizing the federal rule that requires initial monitoring and then compliance monitoring and treatment timelines under the current EPA schedule. VDH staff told the commission capital costs to…
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