{"id":916,"date":"2014-09-15T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T09:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=916"},"modified":"2014-09-14T22:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T02:30:39","slug":"how-clean-is-bricks-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/how-clean-is-bricks-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How Clean is Brick&#8217;s Water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_917\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-917\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-917\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Brick Township Reservoir (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Brick Township Reservoir (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a separate report, Shorebeat summarized the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority\u2019s efforts to protect the Metedeconk River Watershed, the source of most of Brick\u2019s drinking water. So we thought we\u2019d take a look at the latest water tests conducted by the agency to see how clean our water is in town. Fortunately, the report showed Brick\u2019s water quality exceeding federal standards across the board.<\/p>\n<p>The full report <a href=\"http:\/\/brickmua.com\/wq\/wqtestresults.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">can be downloaded here<\/a>, but we\u2019ve included some highlights below.<\/p>\n<p>The report shows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Turbidity<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 0.02<br \/>\nFederal Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL): 0.3<\/p>\n<p><strong>Units of Coliform Bacteria (percentage of samples)<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 0<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 5 percent<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chlorite (parts per million)<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: Less than 0.01<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nitrate\/Nitrites (parts per million)<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 0.6 ppm<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 10 ppm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lead (parts per million)<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 0.0005 ppm<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 0.015 ppm<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mercury<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 0.0001<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 0.002<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Dissolved Solids (parts per million)<\/strong><br \/>\nBrick: 128 ppm<br \/>\nFederal MCL: 500 ppm<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/09\/how-clean-is-bricks-water\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a separate report, Shorebeat summarized the Brick Township Municipal Utilities Authority\u2019s efforts to protect the Metedeconk River Watershed, the source of most of Brick\u2019s drinking water. So we thought we\u2019d take a look at the latest water tests conducted by the agency to see how clean our water is in town. Fortunately, the report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[24,269],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brick-by-the-numbers","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-btmua"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/reservoir.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-eM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}