Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
What's in Elk Grove, CA tap water
Every one of the 13 core regulated contaminants reported for Elk Grove, CA came in below its federal limit.
- !13 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 14 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −0 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −9 core regulated contaminants never reported (13/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →+21 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | 5.6 ug/L | 10 ug/L |
| TTHM | 31 ug/L | 80 ug/L |
| HAA5 | 21 ug/L | 60 ug/L |
| Chlorine Total | 1.03 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Turbidity | 0.124 NTU | 1 NTU |
| Nitrate | 1 mg/L | 10 mg/L |
| Copper | 0.1 mg/L | 1.3 mg/L |
| Fluoride | 0.22 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Barium | Not detected mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Total Coliform | 0 % | 0 % |
| Chromium | Not detected ug/L | 100 ug/L |
| Perfluorobutanesulfonic acid | Not detected ng/L | 500 ng/L |
| Perfluoroheptanoic acid | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluorohexanesulfonic acid | Not detected ng/L | 10 ng/L |
| Perfluorohexanoic acid | Not detected ng/L | — |
| Perfluoropentanoic acid | Not detected ng/L | — |
| PFOA | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| PFOS | Not detected ng/L | 4 ng/L |
| Combined Radium | Not detected pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Gross Alpha | Not detected pCi/L | 15 pCi/L |
| Uranium | Not detected pCi/L | 0.43 pCi/L |
What this report doesn't tell you
14 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Elk Grove, CA's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.