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Is Phoenix, AZ tap water safe?

11 utilities serve Phoenix, 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.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

6 of the 11 utilities serving Phoenix have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: City of Phoenix, Epcor - Anthem, Orangewood Mobile Home Park and 3 more.

City of Phoenix, 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 160 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Phoenix is hard to very hard, 172 to 302 mg/L (10.1 to 17.7 grains per gallon). How it compares.

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 Phoenix’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

1 more utility in Phoenix

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Phoenix than those above.

  • Beardsley Water Company 3serves 96 people · lists Phoenix among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Phoenix’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 Phoenix

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

  • Legend Technical Services of Arizona, Inc. DBA Legend Analytical

    Phoenix, AZ · under a mile

    (602) 324-6100

  • Motzz Laboratory, Inc.

    Phoenix, AZ · under a mile

    (602) 454-2376

  • Alliance Technical Group, LLC – Phoenix

    Phoenix, AZ · under a mile

    (714) 832-0064

All 49 certified labs for Arizona

ZIP codes in Phoenix

Which ZIP codes are in Phoenix: 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 Phoenix

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

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