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Chlorine Total in Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA tap water

Within the federal limit· 0.5× the limit

Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's 2021 Chlorine Total measurement is below the federal limit of 4 mg/L (MCL).

The measurement

StatisticValue
Average
Distribution System-Wide
1.9 mg/L
Range
Distribution System-Wide
0.65–2.5 mg/L

Verbatim from Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's 2021 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

How Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA compares

5 of the 307 systems measuring Chlorine Total on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

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People also ask

+Is there Chlorine Total in Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA tap water?

Yes — Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's 2021 Consumer Confidence Report lists Chlorine Total at 1.9 mg/L. Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, Ca, CA's 2021 Chlorine Total measurement is below the federal limit of 4 mg/L (MCL).

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

The federal MCL for Chlorine Total is 4 mg/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

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

5 of the 307 systems on The Water Map measuring Chlorine Total report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Hampton, VA, James City County, VA, Lomita-city, Water Dept. — Lomita, Ca, CA.

+Where does this Chlorine Total measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Chlorine Total entry from the 2021 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Hawthorne-city Water Dept. — San Jose, 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/hawthorne-city-water-dept-san-jose-ca/2021/source.

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