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Around 1979 gasoline manufacturers started adding MTBE to their products as something to help reduce an unwanted engine sound known by many as ‘knocking’. Previously gasoline manufacturers added lead to their products to reduce engine knocking but health problems associated with exposure to lead prompted the government to ban the use of lead in motor vehicle fuels. MTBE presented itself as a cost-effective octane boosting replacement for lead additives ( test your water for lead ).
MTBE helps to ‘oxygenate’ (introduce oxygen into) gasoline products thereby helping to dilute the quantity of harmful tailpipe emissions given off when a motor vehicle runs without negatively impacting the way the vehicle’s motor runs.
Since MTBE dissolves easily in water, it may also enter bodies of water as a result of runoff that comes in contact with areas where a smaller gasoline spills occurred (i.e. at gas pumps), by passing/through ground where an irresponsible party illegally dumped old, unwanted fuel, or from the exhaust of marine vehicles (i.e. boats, personal watercraft, etc.) whose engines fail to fully burn their fuel or port their exhaust properly.
MTBE may also, believe it or not, fall from the sky when it rains since it does enter the atmosphere in small quantities as motor vehicle exhaust. “What Goes Up, Must Come Down…”
For a list of local water testing laboratories with the proper credentials to test drinking water, take a look at the EPA’s list of State Certification Officers for Drinking Water. Find the one (or ones) for your State and give them a call. Withing minutes they should have the ability to provide you with the names of qualified drinking water laboratories in your area.
For a full list of contaminants reduced or removed by the two filters listed above, please refer to the lists below: