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Peak Atrazine Levels in raw (unfiltered) water in Community Water Systems, USA, 2008

The dataset is derived from the Atrazine Monitoring Program for Community Water Systems data.

"The Environmental Protection Agency has been collecting data that shows people are drinking water laced with high levels of a weed-killer called atrazine."

Huffington Post obtained this data through a Freedom of Information Act request and have published the raw data of atrazine levels for about 150 community watersheds in ten states from 2003 to 2008.

This dataset has been geocoded using a combination of HAZUS water treatment plant location coordinates, google, state and local government websites and batchgeocode. When there were two of the same location, the "finished" data was used. To find out if your water source on the list, please refer to the actual name of the plant rather than the address or coordinate.

This dataset contains only the test results from each plant from the day the Atrazine (atrazine ppb) levels were the highest for the year for raw or unfiltered water.

"The Environmental Protection Agency recommends that you ask your local water utility for its annual drinking water report if you are concerned about the levels of atrazine in your water. But, as we pointed out this weekend, these reports are not entirely reliable when it comes to the herbicide."

This section shows information about this dataset's attributes
Attributes Range Median Mean Std. Dev.
City City column (no statistics available)
City of plant or watershed
simazine nd_d Text column (no statistics available)
g 30033 nd_d Text column (no statistics available)
g 28279 ppb
 
0.03  to  1.42
0.17 0.30 0.32
latitude
29.04  to  41.59
39.07 38.40 2.90
Accuracy of Point Text column (no statistics available)
Point may be at the plant level, the city level, or may be the office for the water company of government department. If labeled Hazus, the location was taken from Hazus data.
g 28273 nd_d Text column (no statistics available)
tct sum
 
0.35  to  69.04
5.04 8.80 11.16
g 28279 nd_d Text column (no statistics available)
g 30033 ppb
 
0.03  to  2.66
0.39 0.54 0.54
simazine ppb
 
0.03  to  22.64
0.06 0.59 2.20
Type of water Text column (no statistics available)
raw (unfiltered) water and finished (filtered) water
year
2008.00  to  2008.00
2008.00 2008.00 0.00
atrazine nd_d Text column (no statistics available)
Date sampled Text column (no statistics available)
longitude
-98.31  to  -78.63
-90.82 -90.56 5.00
Program Text column (no statistics available)
Address Street Address column (no statistics available)
Address used to geocode point
Method of analysis Text column (no statistics available)
g 28273 ppb
 
0.25  to  1.94
0.25 0.38 0.30
atrazine ppb
 
0.03  to  44.92
3.94 6.99 9.05
statecount State or Province column (no statistics available)
Community Watershed Name Text column (no statistics available)
Name of Community Watershed Name and/or Plant