B.F. Environmental Updates Popular Drinking Water Guide for Private Well Owners and City Water CustomersThe 2024 KnowYourH2O guide includes upda...
Published on by Brian oram, Geologist, Soil Scientist, Owner at B.F. Environmental Consultants, Inc
The 2024 KnowYourH2O guide includes updated and expanded content.
WILKES-BARRE, PA—September 23 2024—B.F. Environmental Consultants, an environmental consulting firm providing a range of services throughout the Northeast, announced today that company consultants working with the Keystone Clean Water Team, a Pennsylvania-based non-profit, have released an updated version of their popular KnowYourH2O Drinking Water Guide. The new version covers both Private Water systems and Public Water supplies. It includes updated content, new graphics related to water well systems and lead service lines, and information about forever chemicals and PFAS.
“When we wrote the first version of this guide, people needed to know how to determine the quality of the water their families were drinking,” said Brian Oram, a professional geologist, soil scientist, and founder of B.F. Environmental Consultants. “A lot has changed since then, including new testing methodologies and new risks to our groundwater and drinkable water. What hasn’t changed is the vital importance of clean water. The 5th edition booklet provides a readily available fact-based source of information related to drinking water quality, contaminants, water treatment, and a means to easily understand your drinking water quality and identify problems.”
The new booklet is for private well owners, city water users, water professionals, and educators. It provides general information explaining certified water testing, chain-of-custody, and drinking water regulations and standards. It provides information related to the health (primary standards) or aesthetic (secondary standards) concerns for each parameter and provides information on water quality parameters that do not specifically have a drinking water limit. A portion of the booklet sales go to support the work of the Keystone Clean Water Team (501c3) Booklet - https://keystone.carbonwaters.org/pennsylvania-groundwater-quality-guide
Oram and the team at B.F. Environmental are key contributors to the Know Your H2O website, which includes basic water testing and water quality information, as well as educational resources designed to help better understand the complexities of water quality through a review of the basics of physics, chemistry, and biology that impact our water.
Oram was also instrumental in the development of a free Water Quality Index Calculator, which is available to the public through the “Know Your H20” his company supports. The new online WQI Calculator provides a user-friendly website interface, allowing users to add a GPS location to the database or locate the unique sampling site, using an online mapping tool.
Surface water index Calculator - https://www.knowyourh2o.com/outdoor-3/water-quality-index-calculator-for-surface-water">https://www.knowyourh2o.com/outdoor-3/water-quality-index-calculator-for-surface-water
Using the tool, users input basic information about the surface water test site as well as other field data they have collected. The calculator then completes the necessary interpretations and generates the customized report. The online calculator provides the individual ranking or score for each parameter, calculates the weighted average ranking for the test site, and allows the user to generate a customized report for each sampling site.
Updated Booklet offers new graphics related to groundwater and aquifers, common water well construction, and information on lead service lines.
For more information about any of our programs or to order a signed copy of the new booklet, visit the website.
About B.F. Environmental Consultants, Inc.
B.F. Environmental Consultants, based in Northeastern Pennsylvania and the Poconos, has been providing professional geological, soils, hydrogeological, and environmental consulting services and professional, professional and environmental training courses, and environmental outreach and education, since 1985.
For more information about B.F. Environmental Consultants, visit www.bfenvironmental.com and https://www.knowyourh2o.com
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