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    Taste and Odor

    Metadata Updated: September 7, 2025

    Taste and odor issues with drinking water stem from the presence of the organic compounds known as methylisoborneol (MIB) and geosmin. These two compounds are not harmful to human health. Rather, the presence of MIB and geosmin negatively affect the drinking water's aesthetics (geosmin causes an earthy smell, while MIB causes a musty taste). Taste and odor thresholds vary from person to person, but normally geosmin can be detected as low as 7-15 parts per trillion, while MIB can be detected as low as 20-30 parts per trillion.

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    Metadata Created Date May 20, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Bloomington Indiana Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date May 20, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 7, 2025
    Publisher data.bloomington.in.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.bloomington.in.gov/api/views/uxrf-d4qy
    Data First Published 2023-03-14
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-06
    Category Utilities & Water
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.bloomington.in.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id f8cde695-0f81-43ea-ae40-a8f7cb471fc5
    Harvest Source Id 59bba0d6-a855-49e0-bf4b-18a907bd3aba
    Harvest Source Title Bloomington Indiana Data.json
    Homepage URL https://data.bloomington.in.gov/d/uxrf-d4qy
    License http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash fb16730a51c8bd13bdb635566bb05be556c346c0dd7c1573fdab8374f1087ab0
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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