Other Dangers Of Using Chlorine For Pools
EPA mandates pesticide licenses for pool/spa chemical applicators
The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is now implementing rules requiring all companies administering swimming pool chemicals to become licensed as pesticide applicators — and many other states will be following suit in months to come.
The move stemmed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's classification of pool chemicals as pesticides under the The Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986. EPA is now requiring states to comply with that act, which calls for development of regulations that are either equal to or more stringent than federal guidelines.
Fire levels major pool-chemical plant
Blazes continue
for 4 days; officials
evacuate 70,000
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — A chemical fire at the Advanced Laboratories
factory in Springfield forced the evacuation of 70,000 nearby residents,
caused 325 lo require medical treatment and completely destroyed the facility.
ABA amends restricting report on pool chlorine
The
California Air Resources Board has amended a report that could have led to
statewide restrictions or even a ban on chlorine use in poojs. The document,
which identified swimming .pools as a major source of atmospheric chloroform
contamination, drew national attention and was seen as possibly influencing
regulators in other slates to take similar actions.
ARB staff members and : eight pool industry representatives met July 3 to
discuss the report, which in its first draft proposed that pools were
responsible for emitting an estimated 340 tons of chloroform into California
skies each
year.
" This situation is similar to what's going on in some states where a number of pool chemicals have been classified as pesticides," he noted. "It's a sign of the times: States are becoming very proactive regarding "health and safety issues. In some cases, they are characterizing pool chemicals as bad for the environment.
Chlorine fumes
drive 27,000 from LA. homes
CITY OF COMMERCE, Calif. — A chemical fire in a chlorine-processing
plant here on Sept. 3 led to the evacuation of as many as 27,000 residents
of southeast Los Angeles County. Local officials called the evacuation the
largest
in the history of California.