Disinfectants · 2024
Chloramine in Mobile, AL tap water
Mobile, AL's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows Chloramine at or above the federal limit (4 MCL). Measured value is 1.5× the threshold.
The measurement
| Statistic | Value | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
Reported level System-wide | 6 | 4 MCL |
Verbatim from Mobile, AL's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗
About Chloramine
A longer-lasting disinfectant made by combining chlorine with ammonia.
Holds disinfection further into the pipe network, but is regulated under the same residual-disinfectant cap as chlorine.
How Mobile, AL compares
5 of the 106 systems measuring Chloramine on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:
Nearby systems also reporting Chloramine:
People also ask
+Is there Chloramine in Mobile, AL tap water?
Yes — Mobile, AL's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Chloramine at 6. Mobile, AL's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows Chloramine at or above the federal limit (4 MCL). Measured value is 1.5× the threshold.
+What's the federal limit for Chloramine in drinking water?
The federal MCL for Chloramine is 4 . The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.
+What is Chloramine?
A longer-lasting disinfectant made by combining chlorine with ammonia. Holds disinfection further into the pipe network, but is regulated under the same residual-disinfectant cap as chlorine.
+Which other U.S. cities have Chloramine over the federal limit?
5 of the 106 systems on The Water Map measuring Chloramine report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Hollywood, FL, Centennial, CO, Pueblo, CO.
+Where does this Chloramine measurement come from?
This page reproduces the Chloramine entry from the 2024 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Mobile, AL water utility — the annual drinking-water report every U.S. utility is required by federal law to publish. The original source document is archived at /water/al/mobile/2024/source.