Major Industries

Copper rolling, drawing 405 180,502

Nonferrous metal smelting 481 151,790

Nonferrous rolling, drawing 4 8,000

Aluminum foundries 5 1,000

Blast furnaces, steelworks 250 250

Petroleum refining 142 174

Learn more about your drinking water!

EPA strongly encourages people to learn more about their drinking water, and to support local efforts to protect and upgrade the supply of safe drinking water. Your water bill or telephone books government listings are a good starting point.

Your local water supplier can give you a list of the chemicals they test for in your water, as well as how your water is treated.

Your state Department of Health/Environment is also a valuable source of information.

For help in locating these agencies or for information on drinking water in general, call: EPAs Safe Drinking Water Hotline: (800) 426-4791.

For additional information on the uses and releases of chemicals in your state, contact the: Community Right-to-Know Hotline: (800) 424-9346.

Domestic Production and Use: One company in Utah mined bertrandite ore and recovered beryllium hydroxide from

this ore and from imported and domestic beryl. Beryllium hydroxide was shipped to a plant in Ohio, where it was