Metals · 2024

Manganese in Sugar Land, TX tap water

Within the federal limit· 0.1× the limit

Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Manganese measurement is below the federal limit of 50 ug/L (MCL).

The measurement

StatisticValue
Average
System-wide
2.4 ug/L
Average
System-wide
6.3 ug/L
Maximum
System-wide
4.8 ug/L
Minimum
System-wide
3.5 ug/L
Average
System-wide
4.1 ug/L
Minimum
System-wide
6.3 ug/L
Maximum
System-wide
4.7 ug/L
Minimum
System-wide
0 ug/L
Maximum
System-wide
6.3 ug/L

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

About Manganese

A naturally occurring metal from soil and rock.

No enforceable federal limit; high levels stain fixtures and laundry and can affect taste, with a health advisory for infants.

How Sugar Land, TX compares

5 of the 112 systems measuring Manganese on The Water Map have it at or above the federal limit:

Nearby systems also reporting Manganese:

People also ask

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

Yes — Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Consumer Confidence Report lists Manganese at 6.3 ug/L. Sugar Land, TX's 2024 Manganese measurement is below the federal limit of 50 ug/L (MCL).

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

The federal MCL for Manganese is 50 ug/L. The EPA enforces this against the regulated reporting statistic (running annual average or 90th percentile), not a single-sample spike.

+What is Manganese?

A naturally occurring metal from soil and rock. No enforceable federal limit; high levels stain fixtures and laundry and can affect taste, with a health advisory for infants.

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

5 of the 112 systems on The Water Map measuring Manganese report it at or above the federal limit. Examples include Green Bay, WI, Kent, WA, New Bedford, MA.

+Where does this Manganese measurement come from?

This page reproduces the Manganese 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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