FIELD SUPPLIES
FIXED INSTALLATION
Short term Consumption
Long Term Consumption
1962 OHS
EPA 1975
Standards (up to 7 days)
Standards (up to 1 year)
Drinking Water
Interim
Standards
Primary
Drinking
Water
Standards
Constituent
5 Liters/Day
15 Liters/Day
5 Liters/Day
15 Liters/Day
PHYSICAL:
Color
50 C.U.*
50 C.U.*
50 C.U*.
50 C.U.*
15 Units
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Taste
Objectionable
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Odor
3 Threshold
3 Ton
3 Threshold
3 Ton
3
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Odor No. Ion
Odor No.
pH
5-9
5-9
5-9
5-9
Temperature
4-35C
4-35C
15-22C
15-22C
39-95F
39-95F
59-72F
59-72F
TDS
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
Turbidity
1 NTU
1 NTU
1 NTU
1 NTU
5 units
1 unit
CHEMICAL:
Alkyl
benzeme
0.5 mg/l
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Sulfonate
0.3 mg/l
0.1 mg/l
0.06 mg/l
0.02 mg/l
0.05 mg/l
0.05 mg/l
1.0 mg/l
1.0 mg/l
1.0 mg/l
1.0 mg/l
Barium
0.01 mg/l
0.01 mg/l
Cadmium
600 mg/l
600 mg/l
600 mg/l
600 mg/l
250 mg/l
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Chloride
0.05 mg/l
0.05 mg/l
hexavalent
1 per 100 ml
1 per 100 ml
1 per 100 ml
1 per 100 ml
1.0 mg/l
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Coliform
1.0 mg/l
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Copper
Carbon
chloroform
0.2 mg/l
0.7 mg/l
extract
6.0 g/l
2.0 mg/l
6.0 mg/l
2.0 mg/l
0.2 mg/l
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Cyanide
0.6 to 1.7 mg/
**(see table
Fluoride
below
0.3 mg/l
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Iron
0.05 mg/l
0.05 mg/l
Lead
0.05 mg/l
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100 mg/l
30 mg/l
100 mg/l
30 mg/l
125 mg/l
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Magnesium
---------
0.002 mg/l
Mercury
45 mg/l (NO3)
10 mg/l (N)
Nitrate
0.001 mg/l
Phenoile
0.01 mg/l
0.01 mg/
Selenium
0.05 mg/l
0.05 mg/l
Silver
300 mg/l
100 mg/l
300 mg/l
100 mg/l
250 mg/l
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Sulfate (SO4)
Total
dissolved
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
1000 mg/l
500 mg/l
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solids
5 mg/l
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Zinc
PESTICIDES
--------
0.0002 mg/l
Endrin
--------
0.004 mg/l
Lindane
--------
0.1 mg/l
Methoxychlor
--------
0.005 mg/l
Toxephene
--------
0.1 mg/l
2.4-D
0.01 mg/l
2.4-TP(Silverx)
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