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EWG's Tap Water Database — 2021 UPDATE

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Cyclohexane

Status: No national drinking water standard exists

 

Cyclohexane is an industrial solvent.

2017-2019:

FOUND

1

states detected

7

utilities detected

32,217

people served

States reporting cyclohexane in drinking water

UTILITIES WITH CONTAMINATION
State UtilitiesPeople Served
Texas732,217
MORE
LESS

Filtering technologies that reduce cyclohexane

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Activated Carbon

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Reverse Osmosis

Utilities with the highest amounts of cyclohexane, 2017-2019

ALL UTILITIES
LARGE UTILITIES
UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served
Lake Forest Utility DistrictHouston, TX4 of 411.9 ppb6,291
Harris County Municipal Utility District 11Houston, TX1 of 111.0 ppb3,345
West Harris County Municipal Utility District 11Houston, TX2 of 27.30 ppb8,205
Bluff Dale Water Supply CorporationBluff Dale, TX1 of 16.97 ppb250
Northwest Harris County Municipal Utility District 23Bellaire, TX6 of 66.32 ppb3,528
Benbrook Village Mobile Home ParkGlendale, TX1 of 16.23 ppb279
Louetta Road Utility District*Houston, TX5 of 54.02 ppb1,389
Harris County Municipal Utility District 368Houston, TX1 of 13.90 ppb9,906

* This water utility supplies finished drinking water to at least one other water utility. The purchasing utility is not required to test for or report Cyclohexane, but it likely has the contaminant in its water supply.

UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served