Water Quality Data

Your water is regularly tested for more than 120 chemicals and other substances, as well as radioactivity. The table below provides detailed information about the water that comes from your tap after it is treated (treated water) and before it is treated (raw water). The substances shown are ones that our customers have the most questions about.

You can also view the latest Annual Water Quality Report, which lists the annual results for these substances as well as many others.

For a comprehensive list of contaminants that we test for and have not been detected in our water supply, see our 2019 Contaminants Not Detected List (PDF).

Also, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has additional contaminant list information about the fourth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 4). For general background information, see their UCMR Basic Information Fact Sheet (PDF).

Recent Water Quality Results

Substance	Maximum Contaminant Level	Most Recent Result	Date	Source
Arsenic	0.01 mg/L	< 0.002 mg/L	7/14/2020	BCWO Annual
Chloride	No MCL	72 mg/L	10/13/2020	BCWO
Chlorine Residual	4.0 mg/L	3.8 mg/L	10/27/2020	BCWO
Total Coliforms	>5% positive	1.1% positive	10/2020	Last DDW Report
Hardness	No MCL	86 mg/L	10/13/2020	BCWO
Hardness	No MCL	5.0 grains/gallon	10/13/2020	BCWO

Definitions

Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL): The highest level of a contaminant that is allowed in drinking water based on health risk coupled with economic and technical feasibility for control/treatment.

Units	Equivalence
mg/L (milligrams per liter) ppm (parts per million)	1 second in 11.5 days

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