Maximum contaminant level

Maximum Contaminant Level: The maximum permissible level of a contaminant in water which is delivered to the free flowing outlet of the ultimate user of a public water system, ...

maximum contaminant level (MCL)
Under the Safe Drinking Water Act (USA), ...

Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL): The maximum level of a contaminant allowed in water by federal law. Based on health effects and currently available treatment methods.

Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG): Under the Safe Drinking Water Act, a non-enforceable concentration of a drinking water contaminant, ...

Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL): The highest (maximum) level of a contaminant allowed to go uncorrected by a
public water system under federal or state regulations.

MAXIMUM CONTAMINANT LEVEL: The highest allowable amount of a constituent in water. Drinking water quality criteria are established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as regulatory standards.

Maximum contaminant level (MCL): Designation given by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to drinking water standards promulgated under the Safe Drinking Water Act.

Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL)
The enforceable standard, or number against which your system's water samples are judged for compliance with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations.
Maximum Contaminant Level Goal (MCLG) ...

Maximum contaminant level (MCL)
A contaminant level for drinking water, established by the California Department of Health Services, Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management, or by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Maximum contaminant level (MCL) The maximum allowable concentration of a given constituent in potable water.

MCL See maximum contaminant level.

MCL. Maximum contaminant level. Set by EPA for a regulated substance in drinking water.
MGD. Million gallons per day.

maximum contaminant level The highest level of a contaminant permissible in water in a public water system. master streamThe largest stream within a drainage basin into which all other streams flow.

MCLs: Maximum Contaminant Levels.
MCS: See "Multiple Chemical Sensitivity."
Mg/M3: Milligrams per cubic meter.

Secondary Maximum Contaminant Level
SMCRA
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act ...

Recommended Maximum Contaminant Level (RMCL): The maximum level of a contaminant in drinking water at which no known or anticipated adverse effect on human health would occur, and that includes an adequate margin of safety.

A PMCL variance is a variance to a primary maximum contaminant level, or to a treatment technique requirement. An operational variance is a variance to an operational regulation or to a secondary maximum contaminant level.

See also: Contaminant, Water, Air, Concentration, Waste