Water quality board says metals in Klamath River not a health concern
In late March the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors proclaimed a local emergency related to concerns about heavy metals like arsenic and lead being present in the Klamath River. It was prompted by the ongoing removal of four hydroelectric dams on the river. … Matt St. John, an environmental program manager with the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, said it was expected that you’d also have high metals concentrations. “Those metals concentrations are not a threat to public health. It’s okay to touch the water with those type of concentrations. And no water in the state of California should be drunk without any without treatment. And so, the Klamath River isn’t a source of drinking water without treatment of that water.”
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