Drinking water quality · 2024
· Verified
What's in Gaither Manor Apartments, MD tap water
Only 5 of 27 core regulated contaminants were reported for Gaither Manor Apartments, MD. What was measured is clean — but most of the picture is missing.
- !2 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- !5 of 27 core regulated contaminants reported — 22 never appear in this report
- ✓Nothing over a federal limit
- ✓No open federal violations
+How this score is calculated
Every system starts at 100. Points come off for measured levels, for the federal violation record, and for how much of the core regulated set the utility actually reported. All three inputs are the utility's own published numbers and EPA's own records.
- −0 contaminants at or above a federal limit
- −8 contaminants within 20% of a limit
- −0 open health-based violations
- −0 open monitoring / reporting violations
- −0 health-based violations resolved in the last 5 years
- −22 core regulated contaminants never reported (5/27)
A 90–100 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F below 60. A system reporting under a third of the core set is capped at C however clean its numbers look — a short report is not a clean bill of health.
Full grading methodology, constant for constant →What to worry about
- Nitrate93% of the federal limit9.3 mg/L · limit 10 mg/L
Levels above the federal limit can cause 'blue baby syndrome,' a serious oxygen-transport condition in infants.
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
- Nitrate Nitrite81% of the federal limit8.1 mg/L · limit 10 mg/L
higher than 95% of U.S. systems
+7 contaminants were measured and came in below the limitShow all
| Contaminant | Measured | Federal limit |
|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium | 0.8 pCi/L | 5 pCi/L |
| Chlorine | 0.3 mg/L | 4 mg/L |
| Barium | 0.115 mg/L | 2 mg/L |
| Selenium | 1 ug/L | 50 ug/L |
| Chromium | 1 ug/L | 100 ug/L |
| Dibromochloromethane | 0.00118 mg/L | — |
| Nickel | 0.007 mg/L | — |
What this report doesn't tell you
22 of the 27 contaminants a community water system normally reports do not appear anywhere in Gaither Manor Apartments, MD's data. Absent is not the same as absent-from-the-water — it means nobody published a number.