Similarly, the maximum contaminant level for fluoride is four ppm, while the Talladega sample detected only 2.49 ppm. Nitrates were detected at 1.08, whereas the MCL is 10.
As for organic chemicals, haloacetic acid, a byproduct of the chlorination process, tested at 50 with an MCL of 60. The only other organic chemical contaminants present were trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 75.7 and an MCL of 80, and chlorine, at 3.3 with an MCL of 4. Total organic carbon was 1.7.
Total haloacetic acids (HAA5) were 50 parts per billion, with an MCL of 60 parts per billion.
No other bacteriological, radiological or inorganic contaminants were detected.
Several secondary contaminants were discovered, but all were well below the safety level. Aluminum (0.14 ppm with a maximum of 0.2 ppm), choride (3.91 ppm with an MCL of 250), iron (0.04 and 0.3 max), manganese (0.03 ppm and 0.05) and sulfates (14.1 and 250) were all detected.
Calcium, carbon dioxide, magnesium and sodium were also detected, but there are no maximum levels for these substances.
Water temperature ranged from 5 degrees to 29.2 degrees Celsius or 41 degrees to 84.56 degrees Fahrenheit. The pH ranged from 7.7 to 10.1, total alkalinity was 53 and total hardness was 7.1. Total dissolved solids were 106 ppm with an MCL of 500.
Bromochloromethane, bromoform, chloroform and dibrochloromethane were detected in trace amounts, but these substances are currently unregulated.
perkman you are right and at least one of that council that voted against 275 remains there and it is way past time for him to go .
Speaking of paving streets again you are right. I don't know where all the tax goes that we pay on every gallon of gas,it don't show up on the roads in my neighborhood.
As usual they will cut there own throats and want someone else to pay for them doing it. Hey council how many more millions will you spend on McMillian Street while the rest of the city streets go to potholes? They got curbs and gutters on McMillian Street, sparsely populated and hardly a bussiness on the Street. your tax dollars at work for what or who?
Talladega what are your expectations? Will it be business as usual? Is the water and sewer system up to par?????? If it is ever brought up to par will it be maintained? Who will oversee this and who was responsible for it getting this way?? Do we sweep all this under the rug and continue to trip over it? Larry you said that the city council has been decieved.Have they really been decieved or did they truly know about operations at the water and sewer? What does the liason to the sewer and water dept. have to say? I would think that he would have to answer to all this but I have failed to see him speak up.