Mojave, California

Mojave Pud 2024 Consumer Confidence Report. Hardness as CaCO3 283 / 150 / 310 / 150 / 310 / 283 on the labeled 2024 columns. Opened Mojave Pud booklet. Confirm the bill — this file is that PWS, not every address in Mojave. Chlorine residual 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 on the labeled 2024 columns, MRDL 4. No Measure S-style ban turned up — check the sewer agency on the bill.

Cited numbers from the utility report. Length follows the printed value against a labeled scale — not a health ranking. If the report has no number, it is not on the chart.

Hardness283 / 150 / 310 / 150 / 310 / 283 as CaCO3
Chlorine residual0.5 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.5 / 0.87 / 3

Best match for Mojave

Salt-based water softener — confirm the district first

Check the sanitation district before installing a salt system.

Two tall mineral tanks and a black brine tank of a salt-based water softener, plumbed with copper pipe in a garage. — Salt-based softener: two mineral tanks and a brine tank.

Ask the agency on the sewer side of the bill before you cut a brine drain. California lets districts restrict self-regenerating units. A “banned in California” blog is not your district.

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Other options that still fit

Salt-free conditioner
A salt-free conditioner changes how scale sticks. It does not soften. Soap and spots stay closer to untreated. No brine line.
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Whole-house carbon for chlorine
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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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.
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On the report

Water utility: Mojave Pud
Hardness: Hardness as CaCO3 283 / 150 / 310 / 150 / 310 / 283 on the labeled 2024 columns. — Mojave Pud 2024 Consumer Confidence Report
Disinfectant: Chlorine residual 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 on the labeled 2024 columns, MRDL 4. — Mojave Pud 2024 Consumer Confidence Report
Brine / salt to the sewer: Check the sanitation district before installing. No city or sanitation-district residential self-regenerating softener ban like LACSD Measure S or IEUA Ordinance § 2.6 turned up on the pages we opened. That is not a statewide ban finding. Ask the agency on the sewer 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
PFASEPA’s Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule required community systems this size to test 29 PFAS and lithium in 2023–2025. Open the UCMR 5 Data Finder for this PWS. This file does not invent a detection.Fifth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule — U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mojave drinking water on this file is Mojave Pud, PWS CA1510014. No city or sanitation-district residential self-regenerating softener ban like LACSD Measure S or IEUA Ordinance § 2.6 turned up on the pages we opened. That is not a statewide ban finding. Ask the agency on the sewer bill before you cut a brine drain. This is not a legal opinion.

The 2024 report prints Hardness as CaCO3 283 / 150 / 310 / 150 / 310 / 283 on the labeled 2024 columns. Chlorine residual 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.87 / 3 / 0.5 / 0.87 / 3 on the labeled 2024 columns, MRDL 4. Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.

Sources

2024 Consumer Confidence Report (PWS CA1510014) — Mojave Pud / State Water Resources Control Board. Accessed 2026-09-11.

Updated September 11, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.