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| Local Water System Report City of Mccall WaterMccall, IDServes: 3,000 people |
An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests
from 1998 through 2002
shows that customers of City of Mccall Water drank water containing
up to 5 pollutants.
City of Mccall Water is one of 65,000 water suppliers across
the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage,
factory farms, and industry.
Pollution Summary
| 5 | Total Contaminants Detected (1998 - 2002) Alpha particle activity (excl radon and uranium), Alpha particle activity (incl. radon & uranium), Chloroform, Bromodichloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | | 0 | Agricultural Pollutants
(pesticides, fertilizer, factory farms) | | 0 | Sprawl and Urban Pollutants
(road runoff, lawn pesticides, human waste) | | 2 | Industrial Pollutants Alpha particle activity (excl radon and uranium), Alpha particle activity (incl. radon & uranium) | | 3 | Water Treatment and Distribution Byproducts
(pipes and fixtures, treatment chemicals and byproducts) Chloroform, Bromodichloromethane, Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | | 2 | Naturally Occurring
(naturally present but increased for lands denuded by sprawl, agriculture, or industrial development)Alpha particle activity (excl radon and uranium), Alpha particle activity (incl. radon & uranium) |
5 | 2 |
| | 0 | 0 |
| | 0 | 0 |
| | 2 | 0 |
| | 3 | 3 |
| | 2 | 0 |
|  | | Total pollutants | Agricultural pollutants | Sprawl and Urban pollutants | Industrial pollutants | Water Treatment and Distribution Byproducts | Naturally occurring pollutants | | Number of pollutants detected (1998 - 2002) | Over health based limits | | Note: Some pollutants may be in more than one category. |
NOTE: Health based limits included in this analysis include enforceable drinking
water limits (called Maximum Contaminant Limits, or MCLs) as well as
governmental, non-enforceable health guidelines, such as Maximum Contaminant
Limit Goals (MCLGs), lifetime health advisory levels, one-day and ten-day
advisory levels to protect children from non-cancer health endpoints, and
other government-established health guidelines for tap water contaminants.
Health Summary
Contaminants found in your tap water (1998 - 2002): 5 Health effects or target organs of contaminants found: Cardiovascular or Blood Toxicity, Cancer, Developmental Toxicity, Endocrine Toxicity, Kidney Toxicity, Gastrointestinal or Liver Toxicity, Neurotoxicity, Reproductive Toxicity, and Respiratory Toxicity. View Details
Contaminants found above health based limits: 2*Contaminants listed may not have exceeded legal limits, which are set to balance cost and benefits and are often higher than health-based limits - see note below. | Contaminant Name | Average Result | Maximum Result | Health Limit Exceeded | Has Legal Limit | Legal Limit Exceeded |
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| Bromodichloromethane | 0.75 ppb | 0.8 ppb | Yes | Yes | No | | Disinfection by-product | | Chloroform | 40.1 ppb | 44 ppb | Yes | Yes | No | | Disinfection by-product | | Total trihalomethanes (TTHMs) | 40.85 ppb | 44.7 ppb | Yes | Yes | No | | Measure of four disinfection by-products |
* This table contains one or more listings for a chemical group which comprises individual chemicals that are also listed in the table. The chemical group is not counted separately in numbers presented for total chemicals detected.
NOTE: Health based limits included in this analysis include enforceable drinking water limits (called Maximum Contaminant Limits, or MCLs) as well as governmental, non-enforceable health guidelines, such as Maximum Contaminant Limit Goals (MCLGs), lifetime health advisory levels, one-day and ten-day advisory levels to protect children from non-cancer health endpoints, and other government-established health guidelines for tap water contaminants.
Testing Summary
| Contaminants reported as tested by this water supplier: | 67 | | | Contaminants with federal legal limit in tapwater,
with testing required for most water systems: | 73 | | | Regulated contaminants tested
(chemicals with federal legal limits in tapwater): | 64 | | | Unregulated contaminants tested
(chemicals without federal legal limits in tapwater): | 3 |
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Violation Summary
| Total Violations: | 4 | | Health Violations: | 1 | | Monitoring Violations: | 3 |
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Information on violations is drawn directly from EPA's national violations
database in the Agency's Safe Drinking Water Information System. Analyses
by others have raised questions about the quality of the information in
EPA's database. For the purposes of this investigation, EWG is not showing
below or including in our analyses, those violations for individual water
suppliers that occurred on days for which the total number of violations
assigned by EPA to that water supplier was greater than 20. This criteria
was based on common characteristics of incorrect violations data as
identified by water utilities, from a review of EPA's violations data by
several hundred utilities prior to the release of EWG's investigation.
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