Original Broadcast: April 10, 2019

Slide Decks: USGA Webinar Slides – April 2019

State drinking water programs and anyone else interested in these topics are encouraged to attend. During the webinar, the USGS will present:

• Recent and past results and current plans of collaborations with human-health experts from its continuing efforts to research and model arsenic exposures in private and public drinking water sources across the United States.
• Provide data for hundreds of chemical and microbial analytes collected from the taps of residences representing a subset of cohorts from their study with partners. The partners include EPA, City of East Chicago, Utilities Department; Indiana Department of Environmental Management, Drinking Water Branch; National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS); and University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Public Health.
• Share information about the tap water exposure analytical toolbox (target chemical, non-target chemical, biological, effects bioassays) to assess contaminant exposure from shallow private wells at approximately 30 Agricultural Health Study (AHS; a long-term public health cohort study in collaboration with the University of Iowa) participants’ farms in Iowa. Site selection will be based on aquifer vulnerability (e.g. alluvial aquifers and bedrock aquifers with thin overburden) to surface applied agricultural contaminants (i.e. pesticides).

USGS Speakers: Kelly Smalling, Joe Ayotte, Paul Bradley