Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM
Title 179 - PUBLIC WATER SYSTEMS
Chapter 19 - LONG TERM 1 (LT 1) ENHANCED SURFACE WATER TREATMENT (for Systems Serving Fewer Than 10,000 People)
Section 179-19-003 - GENERAL
Current through September 17, 2024
These regulations establish or extend treatment technique requirements in lieu of maximum contaminant levels for the following contaminants: Giardia lamblia, viruses, heterotrophic plate count bacteria, Legionella, Cryptosporidium and turbidity. The treatment technique requirements consist of installing and properly operating water treatment processes which reliably achieve:
1. At least 99% (2 log) removal of Cryptosporidium between a point where the raw water is not subject to recontamination by surface water runoff and a point downstream before or at the first customer for filtered systems, or Cryptosporidium control under the watershed control plan for unfiltered systems; and
2. Compliance with the profiling and benchmark requirements in 179 NAC 19-007.01 through 19-008.05.