Drinking Water Supply and Quality Reports are prepared annually by the New York City Department of Environmental Protection in accordance with the New York State Sanitary Code and the National Primary Drinking Water Regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which require all drinking water suppliers to provide the public with an annual statement describing the sources and quality of its water supply.
Prepared in accordance with the November 2002 United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Filtation Avoidance Determination, this report provides the status of various research programs addressing the soruces, fate and transport of key constituents, and the status of the evaluation of data generated by other agencies. This report also addresses research on watershed processes affecting water quality, special research projects and contains abstracts from a watershed monitoring seminar later in the year.