TM 5-813-3/AFM 88-10, Vol 3
APPENDIX A
WATER QUALITY CRITERIA AND STANDARDS
a. Recommended raw water quality criteria. Table
A-1. G e n e r a l .
A-1 contains a list of recommended criteria from "Wa-
In order to evaluate the suitability of water for public
ter Quality Control," except as otherwise noted. .
supply purposes, it is necessary to have numerical
quality guidelines by which the water maybe judged.
Drinking water standards are of primary concern but
it is also valuable to have criteria for assessing the
suitability of a source of raw water for providing water
of drinking water quality after receiving conventional
treatment. Accordingly, data for evaluating both raw
water and drinking water are given. The raw water cri-
teria are those recommended by the National Academy
of Sciences-National Academy of Engineering,
WASH, DC, and published in "Water Quality Criter-
ia." The Drinking Water Standards are those devel-
oped by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) under the provisions of the Safe Drinking Water
Act of 1974. (P. L. 93-523, 93rd Congress). Additional
Army guidance and critera are contained in TBMED
576, Sanitary Control and Surveillance of Water Sup-
plies at Fixed Installations and in TBMED 229, Sani-
tary Control and Surveillance of Water Supplies for
Fixed and Field Installations (currently used only for
field installations). Additional Air Force guidance and
criteria are contained in AFR 161-144, Management
of the Drinking Water Surveillance Program.
A-2. Raw water quality criteria.
Present-day, advanced water treatment processes have
developed to the point that a raw water supply of al-
most any quality, theoretically, could be used to pro-
duce finished water that meets the current standards
for potable water. However, many of the advanced
treatment processes required to treat a poor quality
water are complex and costly and should not be in-
stalled unless absolutely necessary; i.e., when the sole
available water source is of inferior quality. Raw water
criteria have been developed by the National Academy
of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering and
published in "Water Quality Criteria." It is important
to note that these criteria were developed on the basis
that relatively simple, conventional treatment would
be given to raw water prior to human consumption.
The criteria are not intended to be definitive bases for
acceptance or rejection of a raw water supply. They are
meant to serve as guidelines in determining the ade-
quacy of the supply for producing an acceptable fin-
ished water supply with conventional treatment -prac-
tices.
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