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MCL stands for Maximum Contaminant Level. MCLs are health based standards and are the maximum permissible levels of contaminants which can be present in the water which is consumed by any customer of a public water system. For most chemical contaminants, compliance with an MCL is based on an average of sampling result values, called the Running Annual Average (RAA).
