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KDHE Bureau of Water warns of PFAS uncertainty and a looming SRF funding 'cliff'
Summary
William Carr, bureau director at KDHE, told the Committee on Water that EPA PFAS rules and State Revolving Fund changes are creating regulatory uncertainty and funding risks; KDHE labs began PFAS testing and the bureau is preparing rule packages on injection fees, permit terms and reuse.
William Carr, bureau director for the Bureau of Water at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, briefed the committee on bureau responsibilities, current contamination trends, PFAS implementation timelines and a deteriorating funding outlook tied to State Revolving Fund (SRF) shifts.
Carr summarized water-quality compliance in Kansas over the last four years: nitrates were the most common groundwater exceedance (33 systems at one time over the period) and E. coli events (10 systems) were usually one-off distribution failures. On surface-water plants, the main compliance issues were disinfection byproducts—haloacetic acids (38 systems) and trihalomethanes (31 systems)—which arise when treatment disinfectants react with organic carbon.
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