Unresolved Issues/Data Needs
Dr. Richard Bull on Chloramine
Pennsylvania citizens working to keep chloramine out of their water
In Hot Water? Chloramine Controversy Bubbles Up in Grand Isle
Seven Days VT
March 28, 2012
Tap Water: Running A Risk?
WSPA-TV
Nov. 10, 2011
Zantac a source of tap water carcinogen
ENDS Report
April 2011
Chlorine Substitutes in Water May Have Risks
National Public Radio
January 7, 2011
Protection or Poison?
Chloramination of Drinking Water
by Erin Brockovich
October, 2010
Chloramines: the benefits vs. the risks
Cape Ann Beacon
July 30, 2010
City's water experts stand by chloramines
Gloucester Times
July 28, 2010
Chloramine is now in the West Shore's water
Patriot News
July 14, 2010
County: New chemicals caused lead taint in IBM water
Poughkeepsie Journal
June 17, 2010
State House panel seeks more information on Pennsylvania American Water's chloramine plan
Patriot News
June 17, 2010
House committee to hear chloramine testimony Thursday
Patriot News
June 16, 2010
Our Water Disinfectant: a Civil Rights Violation
San Mateo Daily Journal
May 31, 2010
Leesburg Opts Against Use Of Chloramines At Treatment Plant
Leesburg Today
May 14, 2010
Shampoo, Cosmetics May Form Cancer-Causing Substance in Water Supplies
National Geographic News
April 29, 2010
Chloramine Issues Leave Water Safety Less Than Crystal Clear
Patriot News Op-Ed
April 23, 2010
Safe Municipal Water In Vermont?
Vermont Woman Commentary
April 2010
Chloramine is Toxic to the Environment
The Other Paper Letter to the Editor
April 2010
Be careful with chloramine
Williston Observer Guest Column
4.8.10
West Shore Fights Water Changeover
The Sentinel
3.3.10
Be careful with chloramine
Williston Observer Letter
12.17.09
Antelope Valley water users leery of chloramines
Los Angeles Times
December 10, 2009
New addition to water supply concerns residents
Houston Community Newspaper
10.07.09
Making a switch
The Sun/Houston
10.01.09
Hope springs for chloramine study
Los AltosTown Crier
16 SEPTEMBER 2009
Pros, cons of water additive debated
Patriot News
June 19, 2009
Vt. legislature approves water treatment bill
Williston Observer
May 14, 2009
Senate mulls water treatment legislation
Bill could put moratorium on chloramine use
Williston Observer
April 30, 2009
Water Companies Switch Chemicals, But Is It Safe?
WTAE-TV-Pittsburgh
March 20, 2009
West Shore Group Against Adding Chemicals To Drinking Water
WGAL-TV-Cumberland Co., PA
March 20, 2009
Chloramine fight goes to the state Supreme Court
The Sentinel, PA
March 19, 2009
Clean Water Conundrum
Listen: WDUQ Pittsburgh Public Radio
February 17, 2009
Local residents concerned about chemicals in water supply
Miscellany News
February 11, 2009
Chloramines clamor brings out cross crowd
Antelope Valley Press
January 23, 2009
What's Coming From Your Tap?
Wall Street Journal
August 19, 2008
The Work Behind Clean Water
The Other Paper
June 26, 2008
Chloramine Group Achieves New Legislation
The Other Paper
June 19, 2008
We must act to protect our water resources
Herald Sun
May 11, 2008
Water spill kills McLean fish
Fairfax County Times
April 2, 2008
Vermont group charges chloramine hazards dismissed
WaterTechOnLine
February 26, 2008
Opponents Slam Report on Chloramine
Burlington Free Press
January 24, 2008
Activists, Lawmakers Criticize CDC’s Chloramine Report
Seven Days
January 23, 2008
Hunting for link between water and health, CDC tours plant
Associated Press
September 27, 2007
CDC hears chloramine complaints
Burlington Free Press
September 27, 2007
Consider alternatives to chloramine in water
Patriot News
September 27, 2007
Feds Listen to Complaints About Water
WCAX-TV
September 26, 2007
CDC officials hear complaints about chloramine
Vermont Public Radio
September 26, 2007
CDC Officials to Visit Vermont
Vermont Public Radio
September 25, 2007
CWD Report Ignores Health Problems
The Shelburne News
July 19, 2007
Concern about chloramine must be taken seriously
Burlington Free Press
April 29, 2007
Health Department will not halt chloramine use
Vermont Public Radio
April 16, 2007
Clean water advocates keep up pressure
Vermont Guardian
April 12, 2007
Senate Checks Out Health Impact of New Water Additive
Seven Days
March 28, 2007
Citizens protest use of chloramine by Champlain Water District
Vermont Public Radio
March 20, 2007
Residents Fight For Safe Drinking Water
Vermont Guardian
March 22, 2007
Complaints Surface About New Water Disinfection Method
Seven Days
August 2, 2006
Champlain Water District Switches Its Chemical Mix
Seven Days
March 29, 2006
Champlain Water District alters treatment
Burlington Free Press
March 29, 2006
www.chloramine.org, Citizens Concerned about Chloramine, the San Francisco area group of people who first made the connection between health problems and chloramine disinfection of their water.
Thirty minute discussion about
chloramine in drinking water
South Burlington
Shelburne
Winooski
parts of Milton
Williston
Essex
Essex Junction
Colchester
Jericho Village
VERMONT WATER SYSTEMS
Considering Using Chloramine
Tri-Town
Grand Isle
Clean Water Important Videos about Chloramine
Testimony on H.80
February 12, 2009
Public Records about Chloramine
from VT's Dept. of Environmental Conservation, 2008
Public Hearing
Vermont Senate Health and Welfare Committee's 5-Hour Hearing on Chloramine, 3/13/08
please report your symptoms to VCE and
Contact the Vermont Dept. of Health
800-640-4374
• CWD Manager Jim Fay
864-7454
• ANR Secretary Deb Markowitz
241-3600
• Governor Peter Shumlin
828-3333
Read examples of Symptom Reports
EPA: We have the authority to implement the safe drinking water act and we do that through our regulations. The regulations now require that water systems control the level of disinfection byproducts
VCE: of chlorine
EPA: of chlorine and any disinfection byproducts
....
VCE: What about byproducts of chloramines?
EPA: We have not regulated those.
--Transcript of discussion between VCE and EPA staff at the meeting held at Vermont's Department of Health on 9/26/07
Have health studies been done on chloramine for the symptoms people are reporting?
"In terms of the kinds of health
effects that people are complaining about, there really haven't been any studies to really address that issue in a statistically significant way," said
Lorraine Backer from the Centers for Disease Control.
--WCAX-TV's broadcast,Sept. 26, 2007
Sign on Cancer Patient's Hospital Room Door
Is it because of chloramine?
Dallas, Texas
Environmental Protection Agency's "Messaging" Campaign in Response to Health Complaints about Chloraminated Water
VCE filed a Freedom of Information Act request with EPA in 2009 and received materials that did not answer the question. Many materials were withheld, so we appealed and received more materials in Aug. 2010.
Click on the links below to read what we received from the 2nd round, the materials that were withheld the first time. What we learn from these files is that EPA has devoted substantial resources to messaging rather than trying to determine why people are reporting the impacts that they are.
Note: these are large files.
1. Emails from 2004 and 2007
2. Emails from 2007 and 2008
3. Emails from 2008 and 2009
4. Chloramine use by Region and multi-year emails
5. Correspondence about chloramine use in CA
6. Chloramine in VT and CA
7. EPA Message Maps 1
8. EPA Message Maps 2
9. EPA Message Maps 3
10. Chloramine EPA website info
11. EPA Message Maps and website info
12. EPA Chloramine Criteria Document and PA
13. EPA Message Maps 4
14. EPA Message Maps 5
15. EPA Message Maps 6
16. EPA Message Maps 7
House Committee on Health and Welfare
VCE's Annette Smith and PCAC member Brie Hoblin follow PA's Chloramine Info Center's Susan Pickford in testifying before the committee about health problems from chloramine
Full Transcript of the hearing
June 17, 2010
February and March, 2012
1. Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Feb. 2012
2. Department of Health, March 2012