Municipal Water Quality Report
Reading Your Water Report
This page is intended to help you find and understand your city's water quality report.
First, to find your water report go to google and enter the city you live in. For this example you would enter Durham, NC water quality report. That should take you to a search page that contains the report. If not, then search for the city itself and look for the water department. If you pay someone other than your city for your water then enter those search terms instead, for instance 'United Water, NJ' for United Water of New Jersey.
As an example I've provided the 2005 report from the City of Durham, NC. If you click on that link you'll be able to read Durham's water quality report.
City of Durham, NC Water Quality Report
Along with it, I have recorded my review of this report for Howie Jacobson, a customer. If you open that city's report and listen to the recording below you can follow along and learn something about how to read your own water report.
Understanding Durham's Water Quality Report
The audio is an mp3 file that will open in your audio player. I'd suggest you first open the water quality report and glance at it, then click on the audio file and try to follow my comments and Howie's questions as we go through the report. The audio is about 40 minutes long so grab a glass of water from the tap and let's go.
As you go through the report you'll see a column titled: MCL. Here's what that is:
USEPA and Maximum Contaminant Levels
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James P
McMahon
Ecologist
"What's in YOUR Water?"
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