Waverly, MI tap water
Supplied mostly by Lansing Board of Water & Light, plus 1 other utility. Here's what the water means for your fish.
Disinfectant
Chloramine
Your water is treated with chloramine. Unlike chlorine, it doesn't gas off when water sits out, and many pitcher and fridge filters aren't rated to remove it. Conditioners that list chloramine on the label break it apart, which frees about 0.54 ppm of ammonia here. Some utilities switch to plain chlorine for a few weeks a year.
Safety for fish and shrimp
Ammonia (with conditioner)
Estimate0.1–0.68 ppm (Worth knowing)
Typical 0.54 ppm
This is what a conditioner frees when it breaks the chloramine apart. A cycled filter clears it within a day; a big water change in a new or very small tank adds more of it at once. Some conditioners also bind ammonia for a day or so.
Estimated from the chloramine level Lansing Board of Water & Light reports (2024).
Nitrate (NO₃)
Area estimate0.1–38 ppm (Low)
Typical 4.4 ppm
Low, so water changes lower your tank's nitrate well.
Area estimate from nearby wells: USGS well samples in your state (2000–2022).
Chlorine or chloramine at the tap
0.4–2.8 ppm
Typical 2.2 ppm
At tap levels, chlorine and chloramine are toxic to fish, shrimp and the bacteria in a filter. Water conditioners are made for this range.
Published by your utility: Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2024 water quality report.
Water chemistry
General hardness
89–120 ppm
Typical 100 ppm
Moderately soft to medium. Suits most community fish and plants.
From Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2024 water quality report; Lansing Board of Water & Light, which supplies Charter Township of Delta.
Carbonate hardness (alkalinity)
27–49 ppm
Typical 33 ppm
Little buffering. pH can drop quickly between water changes, especially with CO₂ or an older tank.
From Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2024 water quality report; Lansing Board of Water & Light, which supplies Charter Township of Delta.
pH
9.1–9.8
Typical 9.5
Alkaline. Many utilities raise pH to protect pipes. Stability matters more than the exact number.
From Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2024 water quality report; Lansing Board of Water & Light, which supplies Charter Township of Delta.
Total dissolved solids
278–410 ppm
Typical 332 ppm
A rough measure of everything dissolved in the water. RO water reads near 0, so TDS is a quick way to compare waters.
From Lansing Board of Water & Light's 2024 water quality report; Lansing Board of Water & Light, which supplies Charter Township of Delta.
- Lansing Board of Water & Light and Charter Township of Delta add phosphate to protect pipes. It can feed algae in tanks without much plant growth.
- Lansing Board of Water & Light and Charter Township of Delta soften their water at the plant, so it may be softer than the local groundwater.
Who supplies Waverly, MI
- 2024 water quality report
Lansing Board of Water & Light
Serves 54% of residents · Groundwater (wells) · Chloramine
Charter Township of Delta
Serves 43% of residents · Buys water from Lansing Board of Water & Light · Chloramine
Our data comes from public records and is still incomplete. Many utilities don't publish every number, so we're adding more all the time. Your city's range is a starting point: testing your own tap is the only way to know exactly what's in it.
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