This page is intended to help you find and understand your city’s water quality report, also known as your Consumer Confidence Report.
If you don’t look at your water quality report before you buy a water filter then you’re going to buy the wrong filter
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NOTE: You are most welcome to email a copy of your water quality report to me. Be sure to follow up with a phone call so that we may review it together. Or we’ll find it online. I will gladly go over it and tell you what products I recommend specifically and what they cost. I do not respond to water reports sent by email unless you call as I need additional information from you in order to make a recommendation. This offer is only for people who do not already own water treatment equipment.
To find your water quality report go to google and enter the city you live in followed by the words ‘water quality report’. It may also be called the ‘consumer confidence report’. I’ve provided an example below. That should take you to a search page that contains the report. If not, then search for the city itself and look for the water department. If you pay someone other than your city for your water then enter those search terms instead, for instance ‘United Water, NJ’ for United Water of New Jersey. Community water systems are required by the US Environmental Protection Agency to provide these reports annually. In the example below there is a recording of my review of a water report with a customer who lives in Durham.
As an example, I’ve provided the page with the consumer confidence report from the City of Durham, NC. If you find the current report, you can click on that link you’ll be able to read Durham’s water quality report.
City of Durham, NC Water Quality Report
Along with it, I have recorded my review of this report for Howie Jacobson, a customer. If you open that city’s report and listen to the recording below you can follow along and learn something about how to read your own water report.
Understanding Durham’s Water Quality Report
The audio is an mp3 file that will open in your audio player. I’d suggest you first open the water quality report and glance at it, then click on the audio file and try to follow my comments and Howie’s questions as we go through the report. The audio is about 40 minutes long so grab a glass of water and listen.
As you go through the report you’ll see a column titled: MCL. MCL means Maximum Contaminant Level. Here’s what that means:
USEPA and Maximum Contaminant Levels
Here’s a National Geographic article that briefly mentions that there are chemicals and pathogens in water that are not listed in your water report. That’s why calling me is a better option than going it on your own. I read the fine print in the Consumer Confidence Report and I also know what’s not regulated and therefore not included.
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