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2018
Annual Drinking Water Quality Report • Section 1
City of Mount Clemens Public Water System
The table below lists all the drinking water contaminants detected during 2017. The presence of these contaminants in the water does not necessarily indicate that the water poses a health risk. All testing conducted in 2017, unless otherwise noted.
Regulated Contaminant
MCL
MCLG
Level Detected
Range of Detections
Sample Date
Violation Yes/No
Typical Source of Contaminant
Fluoride (ppm)
4
4
0.1
N/A
8/3/2017
No
Erosion of natural deposits from fertilizer and aluminum factories.
Bromate
10
0
2.3
1.0 – 4.0
Quarterly
No
By-product of drinking water disinfection
Combined Radium (pCi/L)
5
0
0.33
N/A
8/6/14
No
Erosion of natural deposits.
Special Monitoring
45
8/4/2017
Erosion of natural deposits
Sodium (ppm)
Unregulated contaminants are those for which EPA has not established drinking water standards. Monitoring helps EPA to determine where certain contaminants occur and whether it needs to regulate those contaminants. The City of Mount Clemens tested a wide variety of unregulated contaminants in 2010. The unregulated contaminant test results are available to customers by contacting the Mount Clemens Utilities Department.
2017 Turbidity -Monitored every 4 hours at Plant Finished Water Tap
Highest Single Measurement Can not exceed 1NTU
Lowest Monthly % of Samples Meeting Turbidity Limit of 0.3 NTU (minimum 95%)
Violation Yes/No
Major Source in Drinking Water
0.09NTU
100%
No
Soil Runoff
Turbidity is a measure of the cloudiness of water. We monitor it because it is a good indicator of the effectiveness of our filtration system.
Contaminant
Test Date
Units
Health Goal MCLG
Allowed Level MCL
Level Detected
Range of Detection
Violation Yes/No
Major Source in Drinking Water
Disinfection Residuals and Disinfection By-Products-Monitoring in Distribution Systems
Total Trihalomethanes (TTHM)
2017
ppb
N/A
80
38
18–79
No
By-product of drinking water chlorination
Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
2017
ppb
N/A
60
26
15–57
No
By-product of drinking water disinfectant
Disinfectant (chlorine) Residual (ppm)
2017
ppm
MRDLG 4
MRDL 4.0
.80
0.02 – 1.62
No
Water additive used to control microbes
Regulated Contaminant
The Total Organic Carbon (TOC) removal ratio is calculated as the ratio between the actual TOC removal and the TOC removal requirements.
The TOC was measured each month and because the level was low there is No Requirement for TOC removal.
Violation Yes/No
Typical Source of Contaminant
Total Organic Carbon (ppm)
No
Erosion of natural deposits.
Microbial Contaminant
MCL
MCLG
Number Detected
Violation Yes/No
Typical Source of Contaminant
Total Coliform Bacteria
1 positive monthly sample
(5% of monthly samples positive)
0
0
In One Month
No
Naturally present in the environment
Fecal Coliform and E Coli
Routine and repeat sample total Coliform positive, and one is also fecal or E Coli positive
0
0
In Entire Year
No
Human and animal waste
See Page 5 for Important Per-and Polyfluoralky Substances (PFAS) Information
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