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EWG's Tap Water Database — 2021 UPDATE

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Butyl citrate

Status: No national drinking water standard exists

 

Butyl citrate is an industrial chemical.

2017-2019:

FOUND

1

states detected

11

utilities detected

52,395

people served

States reporting butyl citrate in drinking water

UTILITIES WITH CONTAMINATION
State UtilitiesPeople Served
Texas1152,395
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LESS

Filtering technologies that reduce butyl citrate

Activated Carbon

Reverse Osmosis

Utilities with the highest amounts of butyl citrate, 2017-2019

ALL UTILITIES
LARGE UTILITIES
UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served
Harris County Water Control and Improvement District 132*Houston, TX1 of 16.60 ppb4,008
Harris County Municipal Utility District 46Houston, TX1 of 15.40 ppb4,815
City of BellmeadBellmead, TX2 of 25.00 ppb10,052
Rancho San VicenteMagnolia, TX1 of 14.90 ppb96
Bella Vista*Magnolia, TX1 of 14.90 ppb2,046
Country WestPorter, TX1 of 14.80 ppb867
Chelford One Municipal Utility District*Houston, TX1 of 14.60 ppb3,783
City of Mont BelvieuMont Belvieu, TX1 of 14.00 ppb5,542
Cypress Forest Public Utility DistrictHouston, TX2 of 23.90 ppb6,387
Bastrop County Water Control and Improvement District 2Bastrop, TX2 of 23.80 ppb5,220
Travis County Water Control and Improvement District 19Austin, TX2 of 23.35 ppb585
Barton Creek Water Supply CorporationRound Rock, TX2 of 23.35 ppb633
Travis County Municipal Utility District 4*Austin, TX2 of 23.35 ppb237
Harris County Water Control and Improvement District 110Houston, TX1 of 13.30 ppb8,439
City of RockdaleRockdale, TX1 of 13.10 ppb5,595
West Harris County Municipal Utility District 10Houston, TX1 of 13.10 ppb6,858
City of BastropBastrop, TX1 of 12.80 ppb9,557
Harris County Municipal Utility District 316Houston, TX1 of 12.80 ppb951
Cypress Klein Utility District Wimbleton*Houston, TX1 of 12.80 ppb4,197
City of BanderaBandera, TX1 of 12.70 ppb3,198
Harris County MUD 168Sugar Land, TX1 of 12.60 ppb13,029
Langham Creek Utility District*Houston, TX1 of 12.60 ppb10,377
Montgomery Trace Water SystemNavasota, TX1 of 12.60 ppb12,180
Suncreek Ranch Section 2Magnolia, TX1 of 12.60 ppb195

* 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 Butyl citrate, but it likely has the contaminant in its water supply.

UtilityLocationTestsAverage levelPeople served
City of BellmeadBellmead, TX2 of 25.00 ppb10,052
Langham Creek Utility District*Houston, TX1 of 12.60 ppb10,377
Harris County MUD 168Sugar Land, TX1 of 12.60 ppb13,029
Montgomery Trace Water SystemNavasota, TX1 of 12.60 ppb12,180

* 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 Butyl citrate, but it likely has the contaminant in its water supply.