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Sodium was detected in the water sample.
As a note, water containing more than 270 mg/l of sodium should not be used as drinking water by those persons whose physician has placed them on moderately restricted sodium diets. Water containing more than 20 mg/l should not be used as drinking water by those persons whose physician has placed them on severely restricted sodium diets.
Congratulations. Finally got TTHM under control. It’s difficult.
No amount of cancer-causing disinfection and disinfection concoction byproducts is safe for human inhalation, absorption, or consumption.
Cape Charles water is hundreds of times higher than EWG recommended ppb for TTHM.
“The health guideline of 0.15 parts per billion, or ppb, for the group of four trihalomethanes, or THM4/TTHM, was defined in a peer-reviewed scientific study by EWG and represents a one-in-one-million lifetime cancer risk level.”
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/contaminant.php?contamcode=2950
“Studies conducted in the U.S. and Europe have found that drinking tap water that carries disinfection byproducts increases the risk of developing bladder cancer. In animal studies, all trihalomethanes cause liver, kidney and intestinal tumors. Some human epidemiological studies also reported an association between disinfection byproducts and an increased risk of problems during pregnancy, including spontaneous miscarriage, cardiovascular defects, neural tube defects and low birth weight.”
https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/contaminant.php?contamcode=2950
“In conclusion, we found positive associations between blood TCM, BDCM, TBM, and TTHMs and risk of all-cause mortality; between BDCM, DBCM, TBM, Br-THMs, and TTHMs and risk of cancer mortality; and between TCM and TTHMs and risk of noncancer/nonheart disease mortality among U.S. adults. Although our results should be confirmed in well-established cohort studies, they provide evidence that population exposure to THMs may contribute to overall mortality among U.S. adults.”
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.1c00862