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Is Somerton, AZ tap water safe?

City of Somerton serves Somerton, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Somerton serves Somerton. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 97.7 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

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

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Somerton

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

  • Fresh Terra Services, LLC.

    Yuma, AZ · about 30 miles

    (928) 257-3601

  • Eurofins Microbiology Laboratories

    Yuma, AZ · about 30 miles

    (928) 317-1127

All 49 certified labs for Arizona

ZIP codes in Somerton

Which ZIP codes are in Somerton: 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 Somerton

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

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