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DBCP In Drinking Water: What Does It Mean? <br />Page 9 <br />HOW CAN I GET MORE INFORMATION? <br />a. Health Effects <br />DHS's Hazard Evaluation Section has fact sheets and other publications on water <br />contamination (see d. below). A technical summary on health effects for all new and <br />proposed MCL chemicals is contained in the "Statement of Reasons" of the regulation <br />package developed for each of these chemicals. The statements of reasons can be <br />obtained by writing the California Department of Health Services, Office of Regulations, <br />P.O. Box 942732 (714 P St.), Sacramento, CA 94234-7320 (916/32204990) or Public <br />Water Supply Branch office in your area of the state. (See list of these offices below). <br />b. Regulatory Proceedings <br />Information on regulatory hearings and proceedings is available from the Office of <br />Regulations (see a., above for the address). Write or call the office if you want to be <br />placed on the notification list for hearings on proposed California MCL's. <br />C. Contamination Levels and Occurrence <br />Contamination levels and occurrence information is available from water suppliers. <br />Information on monitoring requirements is available from DHS's public Water supply <br />Branch for systems with 200 or more connections and county health department for <br />systems with fewer than 200 connections. <br />d. Water Contamination In General <br />Some suggested sources of further information in California are as follows: <br />Literature: <br />Fact Sheets on Chemical contaminants in Drinking Water. (These fact sheets and the <br />following article on chemical contamination of water are available by writing or calling <br />the Hazard Evaluation Section, 2151 Berkeley Way, Room 619, Berkeley, CA 93704, <br />(415) 540-3063. These fact sheets may not yet reflect the new MCL" s that have been <br />adopted.) <br />Russell H. Jackson RJ, Spath DP, et al. Chemical Contamination of California Drinking <br />Water. West J Med (1987) (147) 615-622 (Copies are available from the Hazard <br />Evaluation Section, listed below). <br />Berteau PBPB, Spath DP. The Toxicological and Epidemiological Effects of Pesticide <br />Contamination in California Ground Water (Chapter 23). <br />