Savannah, Georgia
City of Savannah Main System 2025 Water Quality Report (GA0510003, 2024 data). Floridan Aquifer plus Abercorn Creek. Hardness is not printed on the official 2025 table we opened. Chlorine 1.99 ppm (range 0.19–1.99). No Measure S-style residential softener ban turned up.
- Chlorine1.99 ppm (range 0.19–1.99)
- TTHMs63.075 ppb (range ND–122)
- HAA541.025 ppb (range ND–76)
Best match for Savannah
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
- City of Savannah Water Supply and Treatment
- Hardness
- Not printed on the official 2025 Savannah Main drinking-water-analysis table we opened. Unknown — no hardness bar invented. — City of Savannah 2025 Savannah Main Water Quality Report (hardness not on the opened table)
- Disinfectant
- Chlorine amount detected 1.99 ppm (range 0.19–1.99), MRDL 4, MRDLG 4. Water additive used to control microbes. Surface-water narrative also says disinfection with chlorine and ammonia — the detected-contaminants table is labeled Chlorine. — City of Savannah 2025 Savannah Main Water Quality Report
- Brine / salt to the sewer
- No district prohibition found in current research. Searched City of Savannah water and sewer pages and codes 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
- 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
Savannah Main System drinking water is mostly Floridan Aquifer groundwater blended with Abercorn Creek surface water and delivered by the City of Savannah (GA0510003). No City of Savannah 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 official 2025 drinking-water-analysis table we opened does not print hardness. We do not invent a ppm or grains bar.
Chlorine 1.99 ppm (range 0.19–1.99). TTHMs 63.075 ppb (range not detected–122). HAA5 41.025 ppb (range not detected–76). Kitchen shopping stays the Cloud RO / Waterdrop path already used on other cities if a listing is why you are looking.
Sources
- 2025 Savannah Main Water Quality Report — City of Savannah Water Supply and Treatment. Accessed 2026-09-09.
Updated September 9, 2026. A city file is chemistry we can cite plus the sewer rule. No invented detections.