EPA Code 1094 · Maximum Contaminant Level Exceedance
violations
EPA Limit
0.1 mg/L
Last Reading
78 MFL
First Reported
Jan 2021
Most Recent
Oct 2025
What this violation means
The EPA regulates total chromium, which includes both trivalent (Cr-3, an essential nutrient) and hexavalent (Cr-6, the carcinogen made famous by the Erin Brockovich case). California has set a separate Cr-6 MCL of 10 ppb; the federal standard does not yet distinguish the two.
Recommended precautions
- →Reverse osmosis effectively removes chromium.
- →Some specialized ion exchange resins target hexavalent chromium specifically.
- →Standard carbon filters do not reliably remove chromium.