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EWG's Tap Water Database — 2021 UPDATE

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trans-1,3-Dichloropropene

Status: No national drinking water standard exists

 

1,3-Dichloropropene is a volatile cancer-causing chemical primarily used as a nematocide to fumigate agricultural soils. It exists in two different forms: cis-1,3-dichloropropene and trans-1,3-dichloropropene.

2017-2019:

FOUND

1

states detected

10

utilities detected

9,242

people served

States reporting trans-1,3-dichloropropene in drinking water

UTILITIES WITH CONTAMINATION
State UtilitiesPeople Served
New York109,242
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Utilities with the highest amounts of trans-1,3-dichloropropene, 2017-2019

ALL UTILITIES
LARGE UTILITIES
UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served
Ausable Heights Water SystemKeeseville, NY1 of 10.500 ppb46
Gardeau Water DistrictCastile, NY1 of 40.125 ppb60
Perry Village*, NY1 of 40.125 ppb4,348
Perry Center Water DistrictPerry, NY1 of 40.125 ppb150
Silver Lake Institute - Castile Water District #1, NY1 of 40.125 ppb440
Springhill Mobile Home ParkWappingers Falls, NY1 of 90.0556 ppb150
Farm-to-market AssociatesBrewster, NY1 of 90.0556 ppb48
Union Springs Village*Union Springs, NY1 of 240.0208 ppb3,000
Springport Water District #1 - SouthCayuga, NY1 of 240.0208 ppb500
Springport Water District #1 - NorthCayuga, NY1 of 240.0208 ppb500
Plainview WDPlainview, NY1 of 1,1080.000903 ppb35,000

* This water utility supplies finished drinking water to at least one other water utility. The purchasing utility is not required to test for or report trans-1,3-Dichloropropene, but it likely has the contaminant in its water supply.

UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served
Plainview WDPlainview, NY1 of 1,1080.000903 ppb35,000