Inorganic chemicals · 2024

Trichloroacetic acid in Kansas City, KS tap water

Over the federal limit· 16.5× the limit

Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows Trichloroacetic acid at or above the federal limit (0.5 ug/L MCL). Measured value is 16.5× the threshold.

The measurement

StatisticValue
Range
Range Detected
2–14 ug/L
Average
System-wide
8.23 ug/L

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

About Trichloroacetic acid

A haloacetic acid disinfection byproduct.

One of the five haloacetic acids regulated together as HAA5.

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People also ask

+Is there Trichloroacetic acid in Kansas City, KS tap water?

Yes — Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Trichloroacetic acid at 8.23 ug/L. Kansas City, KS's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report shows Trichloroacetic acid at or above the federal limit (0.5 ug/L MCL). Measured value is 16.5× the threshold.

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

The federal MCL for Trichloroacetic acid is 0.5 ug/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Trichloroacetic acid?

A haloacetic acid disinfection byproduct. One of the five haloacetic acids regulated together as HAA5.

+Where does this Trichloroacetic acid measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Trichloroacetic acid 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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