Moore, Oklahoma
Water Quality in Moore, Oklahoma
Watershed: Mussel Shoals Lake
What is the water quality like in Moore, OK?
Let’s dive deeper into what’s in Moore water.
What’s in your water?
Here are the top 5 chemical compounds in your water and what health issues they can potentially cause:
- Arsenic – Potential effect: Cancer
- Chloroform – Potential effect: Cancer
- Hexavalent Chromium – Potential effect: Cancer
- Haloacetic acids (HAA5) – Potential effect: Cancer
- Total trihalomethanes – Potential effect: Cancer
These are five of the 26 contaminants analyzed by the Environmental Working Group (ewg.org).
14 of these contaminants are rated as exceeding EWG Health Guidelines.
See the What Can You Do? section below for all of the contaminants you can filter out and how to do it.
Where does Moore’s water come from?
Moore’s water comes from the Mussel Shoals Lake watershed.
Both water sources in the Mussel Shoals Lake watershed are in Impaired or Unknown condition. These are:
- Little River – Impaired
- Mussel Shoals Lake Creek – Unknown
Ideally, a water source would be rated in Good condition.
Whether a water source is in Impaired, Unknown, or Good condition refers to the quality of three uses:
- Aquatic Life
- Fish and Shellfish Consumption
- Recreation
Learn more from How’s My Waterway
See below for what you can do to improve Moore’s water.
Conclusion – What Can You Do?
Information about water quality can be surprising.
But there’s no reason to lose hope. There are things you can do in your household as well as things you can do at a community level.
In Your Household:
- Use Berkey filters with activated carbon to filter out 23 of the 26 contaminants in your drinking water.
- Berkey filters can also remove up to 99.99% of Lead in Moore water.
- Brita can filter 12 (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 25 of the 26 contaminants, consider a Reverse Osmosis water filtration system for your house.
- These are more expensive than pitchers to purchase, but can be more effective.
- They have the benefit of filtering out heavy hitters like:
- Arsenic
- Barium
- Chloroform
- Fluoride
- Haloacetic acids – byproduct of chlorination*
- Hexavalent chromium
- Nitrate
- Nitrite
- Selenium
- Strontium
- Toluene
- Total trihalomethanes – byproduct of chlorination*
- Uranium
*Chlorination is an effective method of disinfecting/treating drinking water. You can then use a water filter to reduce the effects of chlorination byproducts to get the safest, cleanest water possible.
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: https://www.cityofmoore.com/government to find contact information for your local officials.