{"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&#8217;s efforts to protect the Metedeconk River Watershed, the source of most of Brick&#8217;s drinking water. So we thought we&#8217;d 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&#8217;s 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&#8217;ve 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&#8217;s efforts to protect the Metedeconk River Watershed, the source of most of Brick&#8217;s drinking water. So we thought we&#8217;d 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_feature_clip_id":0,"_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}]}}