Contaminants

Limits

Sources

Potential Health Effect

Lead

0.15 mg/L

Erosion of natural resources, household plumbing corrosion

Birth Defects, Infant Mortality, Down Syndrome, Kidney Disease

Copper

1.3 mg/L

Corrosion of household plumbing, erosion of natural deposits, leaching of wood preservatives

Nausea, Headache, Nose Bleeds, Liver Damage, Fatal Hemolysis Vomiting, Diarrhea, Stomach Cramps

Residual Chlorine

4 mg/L

Disinfectant added to control pathogens

Nervous System Damage, Anemia, Methemoglobinemia

Trihalomethane: chloroform bromodichloromethane dibromochloromethane

bromoform

80 mg/L

By-product of water chlorination

Cancer, Liver Disease, Kidney Failure, Nervous System Damage, Bladder Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Adverse development, and reproductive effects during pregnancy

Haloacetic Acids:

trichloroacetic acid

dichloroacetic acid

monochloroacetic acid

dibromoacetic acid

monobromoacetic acid

60 mg/L

By-product of water chlorination

Cancer, Liver Disease, Kidney Failure, Spleen Damage, Bladder Cancer, Colorectal Cancer, Adverse development, and reproductive effects during pregnancy

Total Organic Carbon

2%

Naturally present in the environment

Cancer, Chemical Carcinogens, Chills, Fever, Shock, Adverse development, and reproductive effects during pregnancy