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Is Desert Hills, AZ tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Desert Hills, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 3 utilities serving Desert Hills has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Cs Water Company.

City of Lake Havasu, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 100 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Desert Hills’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Lake Havasu’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Desert Hills

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Arizona certifies.

The lab Arizona certifies closest to Desert Hills, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Mohave Environmental Labs

    Bullhead City, AZ · about 39 miles

    (928) 754-8101

All 49 certified labs for Arizona

ZIP codes in Desert Hills

Which ZIP codes are in Desert Hills: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: Arizona Department of Health Services, Arizona certified commercial drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Desert Hills

Other towns in Mohave County with a page of their own.

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