A federal proposal would protect a creek only if it has water almost every day of the year. That sounds simple until you try to prove it, because most small streams in the country have never been measured.
EPA's 2024 PFAS drinking water rule has bifurcated. The 2027 monitoring deadline holds, but PFOA/PFOS treatment faces a proposed two-year extension to 2031, and three secondary MCLs are proposed for rescission. Here is what the split timeline means for utility planning and consulting work through 2031.
NOAA Atlas 15 Volume 1 CONUS preliminary estimates are scheduled for release in September 2026. Once jurisdictions begin to adopt it, the IDF tables underlying nearly every municipal stormwater code in the country go obsolete on the page. The transition will not be clean. Most jurisdictions do not yet have a plan.
