Chicago Drinking Water 11 Times More Toxic than California Legal Standard

Chicago Drinking Water 11 Times More Toxic than California Legal Standard

Chicago has a lot of things floating around in its drinking water that residents probably shouldn’t be consuming, including the toxic metal hexavalent chromium.

An investigation by the Chicago Tribune found that the city’s water contains levels of chromium more than 11 times higher than California’s new health standard for the chemical.

Water from Lake Michigan, which supplies seven million Chicagoans and others, was tested, revealing it had up to 0.23 parts per billion of chromium. California, the first state in the nation to establish a public health goal for the metal, allows only 0.0.2 parts per billion.

Chicago’s water also was found to have trace amounts of sex hormones, prescription drugs, flame retardants, DEET (bug spray) and bisphenol A (plastics additive).

http://www.allgov.com/Controversies/ViewNews/Chicago_Drinking_Water_11_Times_More_Toxic_than_California_Legal_Standard_110810

Study finds probable carcinogen in tap water of 31 U.S. cities
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/20/AR2010122002505.html

Riverside, CA was 1.69 ppb
San Jose, CA was 1.34 ppb

I thought it was just us that drink Chicago water that was off the charts
eeeh gads I guess we are all in this nation-wide
quite a lot of areas not just the great lakes..............

the drinking water quality.