EPA Finds Florida Water Quality Standards Unprotective Of Human Health

Update Appended EPA has notified Florida officials that the state’s water quality standards (WQS) are unprotective of human health and is ordering them to both revise some human health criteria (HHC) and issue new criteria to protect against dozens of priority toxic pollutants in surface waters within a year, or face a federally imposed plan. EPA’s decision -- spelled out in a Dec. 1 determination from EPA water chief Radhika Fox to Shawn Hamilton, secretary of the state’s Department...