Know Your Environment. Protect Your Health.

Dicamba

Hopedale Water Department

NOTE: Hopedale Water Department purchases water from Milford Water Company which is required to test for dicamba. Sample information shown below was taken by Milford Water Company.

Dicamba is a herbicide sold for agricultural and residential uses. Dicamba-resistant GMO corn and soybeans are currently being marketed, indicating that dicamba spraying will increase across the U.S. Dicamba harms the brain and nervous system, and may also harm reproduction and child development.

 

10

Samples

0

Samples exceeding legal limit (MCL)

0

Samples exceeding
health guidelines

Testing results - average by year

 
YearAverage resultSamples takenDetectionsRange of results
2018N/A00N/A
2019ND60ND
2020N/A00N/A
2021N/A00N/A
2022ND50ND
2023N/A00N/A

ppb = parts per billion

All test results

NOTE: Hopedale Water Department purchases water from Milford Water Company which is required to test for dicamba. Sample information shown below was taken by Milford Water Company.

Date Result
2019-05-14ND
2019-05-14ND
2019-07-25ND
2019-10-09ND
2019-10-30ND
2022-04-27ND
2022-04-27ND
2022-04-27ND
2022-06-16ND
2022-11-01ND