Radionuclides · 2020

Uranium in Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA tap water

Detected — no federal limit

Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA's 2020 report shows Uranium detected, but the EPA has not set an enforceable federal limit for it.

The measurement

StatisticValue
Range
GROUNDWATER RANGE (a)
1.6–2.9
Average
GROUNDWATER AVERAGE (a)
2.3

Verbatim from Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA's 2020 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About Uranium

A naturally occurring radioactive metal from erosion of natural deposits.

Long-term exposure above the federal limit can damage the kidneys and increase cancer risk.

How Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA compares

1 of the 773 systems measuring Uranium on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Uranium:

People also ask

+Is there Uranium in Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA tap water?

Yes — Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA's 2020 Consumer Confidence Report lists Uranium at 2.3. Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA's 2020 report shows Uranium detected, but the EPA has not set an enforceable federal limit for it.

+What's the federal limit for Uranium in drinking water?

The federal MCL for Uranium is 20 . The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Uranium?

A naturally occurring radioactive metal from erosion of natural deposits. Long-term exposure above the federal limit can damage the kidneys and increase cancer risk.

+Which other U.S. cities have Uranium over the federal limit?

1 of the 773 systems on The Water Map measuring Uranium report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Cal Am - Bass Lake — Sacramento, Ca, CA.

+Where does this Uranium measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Uranium entry from the 2020 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Bellflower Home Garden Water Company — Bellflower, Ca, CA 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/ca/bellflower-home-garden-water-company-bellflower-ca/2020/source.

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