Figure 5.
Plot of Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC; most probable number per 100 mL) vs cumulative concentrations of DBP (μg L−1) detected in TW samples from treated public-supply (chlorine-based disinfection, blue squares, ■; no disinfection, cyan squares, ■) and untreated private-supply (cyan circles, ●) home tapwater collected during 2018 at Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Samples without chlorine-based disinfection (cyan symbols, gray shaded area) only contained trichloromethane (chloroform), which is naturally-occurring in Cape Cod groundwater.