SHREVEPORT SCENE!
Since April, Shreveport's water system has been over the allowable limit for a contaminant created when chlorination reacts with organic material. The ongoing issue was caused by the city using more chlorine than normal to disinfect the drinking water following the breakdown in December of the water treatment plant's ozone system, which the city hasn't been able to repair while it awaits replacement parts. The several months in which the city's water system has been over the limit for trihalomethanes is not likely to cause such health effects. The city does not normally exceed the limit on trihalomethanes; the plant's new ozone disinfection system will be online in the very near future.