Physical & aggregate · 2024

TOC in Kansas City, KS tap water

Over the federal limit· 9.3× the limit

Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows TOC at or above the federal limit (0.3 mg/L MCL). Measured value is 9.3× the threshold.

The measurement

StatisticValue
Range
Range Detected
2.6–3.1 mg/L
Average
System-wide
2.8 mg/L

Verbatim from Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About TOC

Total organic carbon — a measure of organic material dissolved in the water.

Not harmful itself, but it is the raw material that forms disinfection byproducts; removal is a treatment requirement.

How Kansas City, KS compares

4 of the 211 systems measuring TOC on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting TOC:

People also ask

+Is there TOC in Kansas City, KS tap water?

Yes — Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists TOC at 2.8 mg/L. Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows TOC at or above the federal limit (0.3 mg/L MCL). Measured value is 9.3× the threshold.

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

The federal MCL for TOC is 0.3 mg/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is TOC?

Total organic carbon — a measure of organic material dissolved in the water. Not harmful itself, but it is the raw material that forms disinfection byproducts; removal is a treatment requirement.

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

4 of the 211 systems on The Water Map measuring TOC report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Centennial, CO, Gilbert, AZ, Pueblo, CO.

+Where does this TOC measurement come from?

This page reproduces the TOC entry from the 2024 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Kansas City, KS 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/ks/kansas-city/2024/source.

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