Metals · 2023

Copper in Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA tap water

Detected — no federal limit

Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA's 2023 report shows Copper detected, but the EPA has not set an enforceable federal limit for it.

The measurement

StatisticValue
Reported level
Number of Sites Above the Action Level
0
90th percentile
Level of Detected
0.17

Verbatim from Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About Copper

A metal that enters water from corroding household plumbing.

Short-term exposure causes stomach distress; long-term exposure can damage the liver and kidneys.

How Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA compares

5 of the 1330 systems measuring Copper on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Copper:

People also ask

+Is there Copper in Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA tap water?

Yes — Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report lists Copper at 0.17. Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, Ca, CA's 2023 report shows Copper detected, but the EPA has not set an enforceable federal limit for it.

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

The federal Action level for Copper is 1.3 . The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Copper?

A metal that enters water from corroding household plumbing. Short-term exposure causes stomach distress; long-term exposure can damage the liver and kidneys.

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

5 of the 1330 systems on The Water Map measuring Copper report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Atascadero State Hospital — Atascadero, Ca, CA, Gramercy, MD, White Fence Farms Mwc No.3 — Lancaster, Ca, CA.

+Where does this Copper measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Copper entry from the 2023 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Los Alamos Community Services District — Los Alamos, 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/los-alamos-community-services-district-los-alamos-ca/2023/source.

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