Skip to main content

Occurrence and Concentrations of Trace Elements in Discrete Tapwater Samples Collected in Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana, 2017

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2017-07-19
End Date
2017-12-06

Citation

Romanok, K.M., Bradley, P.M., McCleskey, R.B. Meppelink, S.M., Argos, M., and Kolpin, D.W., 2018, Occurrence and concentrations of trace elements in discrete tapwater samples collected in Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana, 2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/F70R9NN0.

Summary

This dataset contains the trace element concentration results for samples collected from tapwater sites in East Chicago, Indiana, August-September, 2017, and Chicago, Illinois, July-December, 2017. Samples were collected one time, from 45 private residences and associated drinking water plants and source water locations. Water-quality samples were analyzed at two U.S. Geological Survey laboratories: National Water Quality Laboratory, Denver, Colorado and at the Redox Chemistry Laboratory, Boulder, Colorado.

Contacts

Attached Files

Click on title to download individual files attached to this item.

Tapwater_TE_NWQL_QA.txt 1.06 KB text/plain
Tapwater_TE_SiteInformation.txt 4.08 KB text/plain
TW2017_TE_NWQL.txt 14.91 KB text/plain
Tapwater_TE_RCL_QA.txt 1.06 KB text/plain
Tapwater_TE_RCL.txt 17.08 KB text/plain

Purpose

The purpose of this dataset is to report the data used to assess the perceived and actual risk of human exposure to trace elements, including lead (Pb), in drinking water at the point-of-use tap in homes in Chicago, Illinois and East Chicago, Indiana.

Additional Information

Identifiers

Type Scheme Key
DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/F70R9NN0

Item Actions

View Item as ...

Save Item as ...

View Item...