Huntington Park, California

What is the Water Quality in Huntington Park, California?

Compared to other US cities, Huntington Park water quality ranks in the high range for contamination excluding Lead.

Most of their 29 contaminants have cancer-causing attributes.

• Arsenic is at extremely high levels: 143x health guidelines.
• Haloacetic acids (HAA5) are at extremely high levels: 76x health guidelines.
• Haloacetic acids (HAA9) are at extremely high levels: 162x health guidelines.
  • HAA5 and HAA9 are byproducts of chlorine treatment, a common method of disinfecting water supplies.

Let’s look closer at what’s in Huntington Park water.

What’s in Huntington Park water?

Here are the top 5 chemical compounds in your water and what health issues they can potentially cause:

1. Arsenic – Potential effect: Cancer
2. Chloroform – Potential effect: Cancer
3. Hexavalent Chromium – Potential effect: Cancer
4. Haloacetic acids (HAA5 and HAA9) – Potential effect: Cancer
5. Total trihalomethanes – Potential effect: Cancer

These are five of the 29 contaminants analyzed by the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org).

16 of these contaminants are rated as exceeding EWG Health Guidelines.

Does Huntington Park have Lead contamination?

No, Huntington Park does not currently have lead in its water. The most recent Lead samples collected from 2014 through 2016 showed concentrations of 0.0 parts per billion (ppb).

The legal limit for lead is 15 parts per billion. Being well-below this level is a good thing.

• Concentrations between 3.8 ppb and 15 ppb put a formula-fed baby at risk of elevated blood lead levels. Read more about the symptoms of Lead in water.

There is no safe level of lead for humans.

• The good news is that 99.99% of the lead can be filtered out.

See the What Can You Do? section below to learn how to filter out contaminants.

Where does Huntington Park’s water come from?

Huntington Park’s water comes from the Compton Creek – Los Angeles River watershed.

All 4 water sources in the Compton Creek – Los Angeles River watershed are in Impaired or Unknown condition. These include:

• Compton Creek
• Los Angeles River Estuary

Ideally, a water source would be rated in Good condition.

Learn more from How’s My Waterway

See below for what you can do to improve Huntington Park’s water.

What Can You Do?

Information about water quality in Huntington Park can be surprising.

But there are things you can do in your home to clean up your water.

To Remove Lead and Other Contaminants In Your Home:

There is one solution that beats Brita, PUR, and expensive whole house systems.

• It costs less per gallon.
• Needs fewer filter changes.
• And it doesn’t make your water taste weird.

• Use Berkey filters with activated carbon to filter out at least 88% of contaminants in your drinking water. (Berkey Light and Travel Berkey are the only types available in California.)
  • Berkey filters can also remove up to 99.99% of any Lead in Huntington Park water.
  • Brita can filter 13 of 29 contaminants and Lead depending on the filter.
  • Note: We may receive a commission if you decide to purchase filters through links on this page.
• To filter out 26 of the 29 contaminants, consider a Reverse Osmosis water filtration system for your house.
  • These are typically more expensive than pitchers to purchase, but are much more effective.
  • They have the benefit of filtering out heavy hitters like:
    • 1,4-Dioxane
    • Aluminum
    • Arsenic
    • Barium
    • Chloroform
    • Chromium (hexavalent)
    • Fluoride
    • Haloacetic acids (HAA5 and HAA9)
    • Nitrate
    • Radium
    • Selenium
    • Strontium
    • Total trihalomethanes
    • Trichloroacetic acid
    • Uranium

In Your Community:

Contact your local government officials and put pressure on them to invest in cleaner waterways and upgraded city water filtration and treatment.

Go to: http://hpca.gov/ to find contact information for your local officials.

Water Quality in Other California Cities

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