EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camino Real Regional Utility Authority (CRRUA) says it passed its monthly arsenic tests for October.
Test results released by Eurofins Environment Testing — a water lab certified by the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) — show the Sunland Park Arsenic Treatment Facility (ATF) at 4.4 parts per billion (ppb), the Santa Teresa Community ATF at 3.6 ppb and Santa Teresa Industrial ATF at 5.7 ppb. The test results are from samples taken Oct. 1.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) maximum contaminate level (MCL) for arsenic is 10 parts per billion (ppb)…