New England Drinking Water Program
What's New
Emergency Power Facility Assessment Tool (EPFAT): Is your drinking water or wastewater system power prepared? (PDF) (1 pg, 489 K)
Top 10 Ways Utilities Can Save Water, Energy and Money While Preparing for Climate Change (PDF) (27 pp, 2.2 MB)
Water/Wastewater System Generator Preparedness brochure (PDF) (6 pp, 978 K)
Utilities with a back-up generator need to comply with EPA's air regulations for Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines (RICE).
Information about EPA Air Regulations for Emergency and Non-Emergency Generators can be found here.
Information about New England's Drinking Water including private wells, EPA's programs to protect, monitor, treat, and transfer drinking water to residents and businesses, funding opportunities, technical assistance and more.
New
England's Drinking Water
Where do you get your drinking water...
What is ground water... more
Drinking
Water Laws and New Rules
National
Laws protecting drinking water...new rules... more
Private
Well Owners
Information sources... testing...protection... more
Preventing
Contamination
EPA
programs preventing contamination... more
- Introduction
- Ground water discharges (underground injection control program)
- Source Water Assessment Program
- Wellhead Protection Program
- Sole Source Aquifer Program
- Water Supplier-Business Partnership
Water
Conservation
Conservation tips/guidelines... contacts... more
Drinking
Water Security
EPA activities to improve security
and emergency preparedness of public water systems...
more
All Hazards Emergency Preparedness for Drinking Water Systems
Useful tools on pandemic, natural disasters, climate change, and mutual aid ... more
Your
Drinking Water Source
Learn about your drinking water...consumer confidence reports...contamination...local
protection efforts... more
EPA,
State, & Other Contacts
EPA drinking water staff...state
drinking water agencies...technical assistance organizations...
more
EPA
Funding for Drinking Water Activities
Drinking water state revolving fund...
more
Schools
and Drinking Water
Brochure: Are you providing safe
drinking water at your school?...Poster & Bookmark:
Source water protection tips for schools that operate
their own well water system.... more
Lead
in Drinking Water
Basic information on lead in drinking water, actions
you can take to reduce lead in drinking water... more