{"id":102,"date":"2021-08-16T17:56:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-tampa-bay-water.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2022-07-19T15:01:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T19:01:37","slug":"monochloramines","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tampabaywater.org\/drinking-water-treated-with-monochloramines","title":{"rendered":"Monochloramines Improve Water Quality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Monochloramines Improve Water Quality<\/h1><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tampa Bay Water uses monochloramines to treat drinking water. After initial treatment with a primary disinfectant, small amounts of a secondary disinfectant, or disinfectant residual, must be applied and maintained at all times within the distribution system to kill organisms that could make people sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tampa Bay Water uses monochloramines as its secondary disinfectant and continues to use chlorine as its primary disinfectant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of monochloramines ensures compliance with the United States Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (USEPA) stringent health standards. The use of monochloramines reduces the formation of suspected cancer-causing compounds, and ensures a consistent water quality throughout Tampa Bay Water\u2019s wholesale system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The use of monochloramines has reduced the level of some regulated disinfection by-products formed when chlorine mixes with trace quantities of naturally occurring organic substances found in water. Specifically, monochloramines reduce the formation of trihalomethanes (THMs) and haloacetic acids (HAAs), two types of by-products suspected to cause cancer with prolonged exposure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tampa Bay Water\u2019s member governments\u2014Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas County, New Port Richey, St. Petersburg and Tampa\u2014all use monochloramines as a final disinfectant. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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