- Board to Consider Proposed Updates to Water Quality Standards for Sulfate and
Total Dissolved Solids
The Illinois Pollution Control Board, on November 16, 2006, accepted for hearing a
proposal docketed as In the Matter of: Triennial Review of Sulfate and Total Dissolved
Solids Water Quality Standards: Proposed Amendments to 35 Ill.
- The proposal seeks to:
1.
- update the sulfate water quality standards for aquatic life ( allowing 500-2,500
mg/l depending on hardness and chloride in the water body;
2.
- update the sulfate water quality standard for livestock watering ( 2,000 mg/l with
averaging available);
3.
- repeal the TDS WQS as unnecessary after the amendment of sulfate WQS.
- (T...