Little Rock, Arkansas
Central Arkansas Water 2025 Consumer Confidence Report, PWS ID 465. Hardness is not printed. Chlorine average 0.97 ppm (range 0.04–1.48). No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- Chlorine0.97 ppm (range 0.04–1.48)
- TTHMs54 ppb highest RAA (range 16.4–78.2)
- HAA536 ppb highest RAA (range 11–48.5)
Best match for Little Rock
Whole-house carbon for chlorine
No district prohibition on a brine drain turned up in the current file.
That is chlorine. A whole-house carbon filter with an NSF/ANSI 42 chlorine claim is the usual match. A softener will not take chlorine out.
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Other options that still fit
Confirm hardness on the current CCR before buying
Open the current CCR for grains. This file does not invent a number from a ranking site. A salt softener needs a drain if it is legal at the address.
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Under-sink reverse osmosis
The under-sink RO we actually run is Cloud RO — NSF/ANSI 58, kitchen tap, not a whole-house tank. Check the exact listing if PFAS is why you are shopping. Shop Amazon first for under-sink RO, or buy Cloud direct. Waterdrop is a tankless option if you want that path. A certifier-listed pitcher is the cheap first step. Nobody is paying for a medical claim.
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Test the tap first
A homeowner kit is a start. It is not a state-certified lab. Use a certified lab when the decision is expensive.
On the report
- Water utility
- Central Arkansas Water
- Hardness
- Not printed on the official 2025 CCR tables we opened. Unknown — no hardness bar invented. — Central Arkansas Water 2025 Consumer Confidence Report (hardness not printed)
- Disinfectant
- Chlorine average 0.97 ppm (range 0.04–1.48), MRDL 4 / MRDLG 4. Chlorine, not chloramine. PWS ID 465. — Central Arkansas Water 2025 Consumer Confidence Report
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched Central Arkansas Water and City of Little Rock sewer pages for a residential self-regenerating softener or brine-drain ban like LACSD Measure S. None turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain.
Also around here
Extra context besides the utility report and the chart above — geology, an unregulated table, or a published study. Not a second set of printed tap numbers.
- MicroplasticsWHO’s 2019 review examined studies that found microplastic particles in treated tap and bottled water in many places. That is a published-occurrence finding, not a number from this city’s water-quality report, and we do not invent a particles-per-liter count for the tap.Microplastics in drinking-water — World Health Organization
- LeadSame 2025 CCR lead-and-copper table. 90th percentile lead <0.001 ppm (action level 0.015 ppm). 50 sites, 0 over the action level. 2025 monitoring period.Lead 90th percentile <0.001 ppm, 0 of 50 sites over AL 0.015.2025 Consumer Confidence Report — Central Arkansas Water
Little Rock drinking water is Central Arkansas Water, PWS 465, from Lake Winona and Lake Maumelle treated at Jack H. Wilson and Ozark Point. No City of Little Rock residential softener ban like LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer agency on the bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.
The 2025 CCR does not print a hardness row. Chlorine 0.97 ppm average (0.04–1.48). TTHMs highest running 12-month average 54 ppb (16.4–78.2). HAA5 36 ppb (11–48.5). Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- 2025 Consumer Confidence Report — Central Arkansas Water. Accessed 2026-09-10.
Updated September 10, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.