Metals · 2024

Arsenic in Simi Valley, CA tap water

Within the federal limit· 0.3× the limit

Simi Valley, CA's 2024 Arsenic measurement is below the federal limit of 10 ug/L (MCL).

The measurement

StatisticValue
Range
Calleguas Lake Bard Water Filtration Plant
2–4 ug/L
Average
Calleguas Lake Bard Water Filtration Plant
3 ug/L
Range
Tapo Canyon Water Treatment Plant
0.96 ug/L
Average
Metropolitan Jensen Plant
Not detected ug/L
Average
Tapo Canyon Water Treatment Plant
0.96 ug/L
Range
Metropolitan Jensen Plant
Not detected ug/L

Verbatim from Simi Valley, CA's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About Arsenic

A naturally occurring element that also enters water from industry and agriculture.

A known human carcinogen; long-term exposure is linked to skin, bladder, and lung cancer.

How Simi Valley, CA compares

4 of the 169 systems measuring Arsenic on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Arsenic:

People also ask

+Is there Arsenic in Simi Valley, CA tap water?

Yes — Simi Valley, CA's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Arsenic at 3 ug/L. Simi Valley, CA's 2024 Arsenic measurement is below the federal limit of 10 ug/L (MCL).

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

The federal MCL for Arsenic is 10 ug/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Arsenic?

A naturally occurring element that also enters water from industry and agriculture. A known human carcinogen; long-term exposure is linked to skin, bladder, and lung cancer.

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

4 of the 169 systems on The Water Map measuring Arsenic report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Albuquerque, NM, Beaches Water, MD, Beaver Run Mhp, MD.

+Where does this Arsenic measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Arsenic entry from the 2024 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Simi Valley, 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/simi-valley/2024/source.

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