Inorganic chemicals · 2024

Trichloroacetic acid in Fort Worth, TX tap water

Within the federal limit· 0.0× the limit

Fort Worth, TX's 2024 Trichloroacetic acid measurement is below the federal limit of 20 ug/L (Public health goal).

The measurement

StatisticValue
Range
Range of Detects
0 ug/L
Average
System-wide
0.06 ug/L

Verbatim from Fort Worth, TX'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.

How Fort Worth, TX compares

1 of the 23 systems measuring Trichloroacetic acid on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Trichloroacetic acid:

People also ask

+Is there Trichloroacetic acid in Fort Worth, TX tap water?

Yes — Fort Worth, TX's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Trichloroacetic acid at 0.06 ug/L. Fort Worth, TX's 2024 Trichloroacetic acid measurement is below the federal limit of 20 ug/L (Public health goal).

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

The federal Public health goal for Trichloroacetic acid is 20 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.

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

1 of the 23 systems on The Water Map measuring Trichloroacetic acid report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Kansas City, KS.

+Where does this Trichloroacetic acid measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Trichloroacetic acid entry from the 2024 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Fort Worth, TX 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/tx/fort-worth/2024/source.

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