Contaminants | Limits | Sources | Potential Health Effect |
Residual Chlorine | 4 mg/L | Disinfectant added to control pathogens | Nervous system damage, anemia, and methemoglobinemia |
Trihalomethanes: chloroform, bromodichloromethane, dibromochloromethane, and 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 |