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Algae
WaterOne constantly monitors water quality. Its treatment process provides a strong barrier to algal toxins, ensuring that your water is safe to consume.
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Arsenic
WaterOne constantly monitors water quality to ensure that elements like arsenic pose no threat to its customers.
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Atrazine
WaterOne constantly monitors water quality for elements like Atrazine, a common herbicide used to control weeds in corn, sorghum, sugar cane, and some specialty crop fields.
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Blue-Green Algae
In this geographic region, conditions are sometimes ideal for Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs).
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Chlorine
For almost 100 years, chlorine has played a vital role in public health as a disinfectant in treated drinking water.
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Chromium
WaterOne’s state-of-the-art water quality lab runs over 120,000 tests on over 18,000 water samples each year to ensure the finest water reaches our customers’ taps. This includes monitoring for substances like chromium.
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Copper
Like lead, most copper in drinking water comes from plumbing in your home.
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Cryptosporidium & Giardia
WaterOne constantly monitors water quality to identify and remove undesirable microbes like Cryptosporidium and Giardia.
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Fluoride
The oral health benefits of fluoride can be traced to the early 1900’s when a dentist discovered that a water supply naturally high in fluoride decreased the occurrence of cavities in his patients.
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Lead
Lead in plumbing is a key health and safety focus for public health officials, consumers, and water providers.
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Methyl Tertiary-Butyl Ether (MTBE)
In the past, media reports have raised consumer concern about methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) leaking into some groundwater sources from underground gasoline storage tanks.
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Nitrate
Nitrate is not a concern for WaterOne customers. Nitrate is primarily an issue in private wells and agricultural areas, indicating the presence of other contaminants such as agricultural pesticides or bacteria from a leaking septic tank.
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Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS)
Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl substances, commonly known as PFAS (or by variants such as PFOA, PFOS, or GenX,) are a group of man-made chemicals.
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Radon
WaterOne’s state-of-the-art water quality lab runs over 120,000 tests on over 18,000 water samples each year to ensure the finest water reaches our customers’ taps. This includes monitoring for substances like radon.
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Vinyl Chloride
WaterOne’s state-of-the-art water quality lab runs over 120,000 tests on over 18,000 water samples each year to ensure the finest water reaches our customers’ taps. This includes monitoring for vinyl chloride, a known carcinogen.
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