Know Your Environment. Protect Your Health.

Nitrite

Lovelock Meadows Water District

Nitrite, closely related to the fertilizer chemical nitrate, comes from urban runoff and from fertilizer applied to agricultural lands to pollute drinking water. Nitrite is significantly more toxic than nitrate. Excessive nitrite in water can cause oxygen deprivation in infants and increase the risk of cancer.

 

13

Samples

0

Samples exceeding legal limit (MCL)

0

Samples exceeding
health guidelines

Testing results - average by year

 
YearAverage resultSamples takenDetectionsRange of results
2018ND10ND
2019ND40ND
2020ND30ND
2021ND10ND
2022ND10ND
2023ND30ND

ppm = parts per million

State, National, and Health Guidelines for Drinking Water

EPA Maximum Contaminant
Level (MCL): 1 ppm

The legal limit for nitrite, established in 1991, was based on the rate of conversion of ingested nitrate into nitrite in adults. This limit may not fully protect against the risk of cancer due to nitrite exposure.

ppm = parts per million

All test results

Date Lab ID Result
2018-07-30EN2018-00003723ND
2019-02-25EN2019-00000705ND
2019-03-04EN2019-00000807ND
2019-04-17EN2019-00001558ND
2019-08-12EN2019-00003934ND
2020-02-05EN2020-00007100ND
2020-02-25EN2020-00007407ND
2020-03-16EN2020-00007741ND
2021-03-01EN2021-00012246ND
2022-04-04EN2022-00001425ND
2023-03-06EN2023-00000744ND
2023-06-05EN2023-00002051ND
2023-07-05EN2023-00002483ND