… At Tuesday’s Ripon City Council meeting, Public Works Director James Pease addressed this in regards to the drinking water standards established by the State of California and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The City of Ripon’s Well 19, which was constructed in 2022, was recently discovered to contain hexavalent chromium otherwise knowns as Chromium-6. The drinking water locally is routinely tested and the results of those tests are monitored by the City and the State of California Division of Drinking Water in an effort to ensure the concentration of any regulated constituent present in the water does not exceed the allowable regulatory limit.

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