Physical & aggregate · 2023

Odor in City of Santa Ana, CA tap water

Not detected

City of Santa Ana, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report tested for Odor and reported no detectable amount.

The measurement

StatisticValue
Highest single sample
Source water
Not detected TON

Verbatim from City of Santa Ana, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About Odor

A measure of detectable smell in the water.

Regulated only as a secondary (cosmetic) standard.

How City of Santa Ana, CA compares

5 of the 193 systems measuring Odor on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Odor:

People also ask

+Is there Odor in City of Santa Ana, CA tap water?

City of Santa Ana, CA's 2023 Consumer Confidence Report tested for Odor and found no detectable amount.

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

The federal MCL for Odor is 3 TON. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Odor?

A measure of detectable smell in the water. Regulated only as a secondary (cosmetic) standard.

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

5 of the 193 systems on The Water Map measuring Odor report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Santa Rosa, CA, Escondido, City of, CA, City of Martinez, CA.

+Where does this Odor measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Odor entry from the 2023 Consumer Confidence Report published by the City of Santa Ana, 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/santa-ana/2023/source.

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