Chlorine and chloramine

Utility disinfectants. Taste and odor are NSF/ANSI 42 territory. Chloramine needs a chloramine-specific listing and usually catalytic carbon.

Category
aesthetic
EPA status
Disinfectant residuals are regulated for public systems (e.g. Phoenix cites a 0.2 ppm minimum leaving the plant and a 4.0 ppm MRDL). Taste and odor are secondary / aesthetic.
Typical sources
Deliberately added at the treatment plant. Phoenix publishes chlorine. SCV Water publishes chloramine since 2005.

What actually fits

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Read the utility, not a regional myth.

  • Phoenix: chlorine.
  • Santa Clarita Valley: chloramine since 2005. SCV Water notes chloramine must be removed or neutralized for aquatic animals and kidney dialysis — follow medical and aquarium guidance from those professionals; we will not improvise it.

Whole-house carbon is the treatment type for taste and odor. A chlorine 42 listing is not a chloramine 42 listing. A softener is not a disinfectant filter.

Carbon that is only 42 is not a PFAS claim. See PFAS.

Cities on file

Only numbers and notes already printed on a city Markdown file. We do not invent a detection to fill this list.

Highest cited numbers

Only values already printed on a utility report. Sort is the optional numeric field, not a new lab result.

CityCitedOn the report
Hawthorn Woods, Illinois2025 ppmChlorine
Oneida, Pennsylvania102 ppmChlorine
Greenville, Pennsylvania101 ppmChlorine
Ludlow, Illinois6.3 ppmDisinfectant residual
Odem, Texas4.95 ppm (4.1–6.15)Chlorine
Accident, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Alburnett, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Annapolis, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Blakesburg, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Brooklyn, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Chariton, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Chesapeake City, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Coffeeville, Mississippi4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Collins, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Corinth, Mississippi4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Cornell, Illinois4 ppmDisinfectant residual
Cresco, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Crystal Lake, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Darlington, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Denver, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Everly, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Farmersburg, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Frostburg, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Grinnell, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Hiawatha, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Hide-A-Way Lake, Mississippi4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Iuka, Mississippi4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
La Plata, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Lake View, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Lime Springs, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Luxemburg, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Lynnville, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Manchester, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Marshalltown, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Minden, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Myersville, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Nashua, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
New Windsor, Maryland4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Osage, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual
Panora, Iowa4 mg/LDisinfectant residual

All files with a cite

3939 city files. Grouped by state.

Alabama 3

Alaska 1

  • Ketchikan — 0.4 / 2 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 1.2 / 1.6 / 1 / 2

Arizona 17

Arkansas 2

California 489

Colorado 12

Connecticut 2

District of Columbia 1

Florida 11

Georgia 45

Idaho 3

Illinois 1009

Indiana 11

Iowa 154

Kansas 524

Kentucky 5

Louisiana 3

Maine 2

Maryland 84

Massachusetts 37

Michigan 4

Minnesota 1

Mississippi 14

Missouri 16

Montana 24

Nebraska 2

  • Lincoln — 2.44 ppm (range 0.02–3.77)
  • Omaha — used in treatment

Nevada 2

  • Reno — 1.08 ppm (range 0.12–1.99)
  • Las Vegas — about 1 ppm residual

New Hampshire 1

  • Dover — named disinfectant on the 2025 report

New Jersey 66

New Mexico 48

New York 6

North Carolina 9

North Dakota 1

  • Fargo — 2.8 ppm (2.74–2.95)

Ohio 19

Oklahoma 350

Oregon 3

  • Salem — 1.31 ppm (range 0.80–2.26)
  • Eugene — 0.19–0.73 ppm
  • Portland — chlorine then ammonia

Pennsylvania 773

Rhode Island 6

South Carolina 47

Tennessee 13

Texas 69

Utah 1

Virginia 7

Washington 20

West Virginia 4

  • Bluefield — 0.2 / 1.55 / 1.3 / 0.43 / 2.16
  • Gassaway — 0.2 / 1.9 / 1.11 / 0.23 / 2.2
  • Huntington — 0.2 / 2.3 / 2 / 0.46 / 3.26
  • Weston — 0.2 / 2 / 1.2 / 0.25 / 2.2

Wisconsin 18