Delisting Targets developed by RAP Teams

Restrictions on Drinking Water Consumption or Taste and Odor Problems

*Please note: it is not in the IJC’s jurisdiction to endorse specific delisting targets.
*The IJC would like to encourage RAP Teams to submit estabnlished delisting targets to us. Please send them to the International Joint Commission

Canada

Bay of Quinte, Ontario
Maintain all treated drinking water supplies in compliance with Provincial Drinking Water Objectives and improve the palatability of drinking water drawn from the bay by reducing the biomass of taste and odour causing algae.
St. Lawrence River, Ontario
When effective treatment is in place to remove the taste and odour problem in Cornwall drinking water.
Niagara River, Ontario
* There be no exceedence of the most stringent water quality objectives of the jurisdictions involved.
* Use most stringent swimming water objectives for phosphorus, sediments, turbidity and drinking water objectives for toxic chemicals of the jurisdictions involved (incl. Welland River and tribs).

U.S.A.

Detroit River, Michigan
For treated drinking water supplies: densities of disease-causing organisms or concentrations of hazardous or toxic chemicals or radioactive sustances do not exceed the current and most stringent human health standards, objectives, or guidelines; and treatment needed to make raw water suitable for drinking, including the treatment for taste and odor, does not exceed the standard treatment (settling, coagulation, disinfection).
Rochester Embayment, New York
1. Current scientific literature indicates that drinking water taste and odor is a Great Lakes-wide problem; AND
2. The scientific literature establishes cause(s) for taste and odor problems; AND
3. The Rochester Embayment watershed does not contribute significantly to the taste and odor problem as determined using the findings od Delisting Criteria #2.
Saginaw River & Bay, Michigan
The N:P ratio measured in Saginaw Bay is at least 29:1 for three successive years, indicating that conditions once favoring blue-green algal populations responsible for former taste and odor problems in drinking water withdrawn from the bay are no longer present.
Muskegon Lake, Michigan
1. MDEQ, U.S. EPA and Potentially Responsible Partners will address groundwater contamination
2. Muskegon County Health Department will address drinking water wells for nitrates and other contaminants of concern
White Lake, Michigan
1. Ensure all area residents and businesses have safe drinking water that meets water quality standards (including bacteria, metals, and persistent chemicals). Targeted area includes all property "downstream" of groundwater contamination sites that already impact or would impact White Lake if untreated. Meet standards by 2005.
2. Evaluate all possible contamination sites by 2006 and implement remedial projects for necessary site by 2010.