A summertime blip in Akron's water testing has been addressed, city officials say, and the system has achieved high marks in recent follow-up checks.

In July, Akron informed residents that their water supply exceeded the maximum level of a common byproduct — haloacetic acid (HAA5) — created through the water treatment and disinfection process at two of 12 sampling locations. Now it says recent tests show that the city's HAA5 levels are again in a normal range, and the best results the city has seen for HAA5 levels in at least five years.

In a release, the city attributed the turnaround to the efforts of the Akron Water Supply Bureau, "who analyzed every aspect of the city's water treatment process, adjusted chemical usage, modified distribution operations and optimized the water treatm

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