Drinking Water Standards, Risk Assessment, and Risk Communication
Cadmus is one of the nation’s leading firms in drinking water and the largest contractor to the U.S. EPA Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water (OGWDW). OGWDW, together with states, tribes, and its many partners, protects public health by ensuring safe drinking water and protecting ground water. OGWDW, along with EPA's ten regional drinking water programs, oversees implementation of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA), which is the national law safeguarding tap water in America. Cadmus has assisted OGWDW in every aspect of the SDWA from rule development, to regulatory training and implementation support, to development of small system tools and compliance documents, to state program evaluation and program support, to assessing and documenting infrastructure needs, to water security.We have worked on just about every major regulation developed by OGWDW since the early 1980s to implement the Safe Drinking Water Act.
Our overarching goal is to ensure our drinking water is safe, our water systems are secure, our source water protected, and our ground water and surface water are of the highest possible quality. Our path to this goal involves: