Inorganic chemicals · 2024

Chloride in Sugar Land, TX tap water

Within the federal limit· 0.3× the limit

Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Chloride measurement is below the federal limit of 250 mg/L (MCL).

The measurement

StatisticValue
Maximum
System-wide
64 mg/L
Average
System-wide
44 mg/L
Average
System-wide
60 mg/L
Maximum
System-wide
43 mg/L
Minimum
System-wide
56 mg/L
Maximum
System-wide
44 mg/L
Minimum
System-wide
60 mg/L
Average
System-wide
42 mg/L
Minimum
System-wide
44 mg/L
Average
System-wide
65 mg/L
Minimum
System-wide
41 mg/L
Maximum
System-wide
70 mg/L

Verbatim from Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report — source document ↗

About Chloride

A naturally occurring salt compound.

Regulated only as a secondary (cosmetic) standard; high levels cause a salty taste and can corrode pipes.

How Sugar Land, TX compares

1 of the 143 systems measuring Chloride on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Chloride:

People also ask

+Is there Chloride in Sugar Land, TX tap water?

Yes — Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Chloride at 65 mg/L. Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Chloride measurement is below the federal limit of 250 mg/L (MCL).

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

The federal MCL for Chloride is 250 mg/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Chloride?

A naturally occurring salt compound. Regulated only as a secondary (cosmetic) standard; high levels cause a salty taste and can corrode pipes.

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

1 of the 143 systems on The Water Map measuring Chloride report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Lakewood, CO.

+Where does this Chloride measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Chloride entry from the 2024 Consumer Confidence Report published by the Sugar Land, 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/sugar-land/2024/source.

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