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Fircrest Mutual Water Company

What EPA’s and California’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
126 people
Connections
47
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Sebastopol, CA
County
Sonoma
Owner
Private
Hardness
Varies by source
The ZIP code it serves

95472

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM): California’s own results, samples taken from March 18, 2020 to June 2, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

5.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

Averaged by year, the highest was 5.0 ppb, in 2026: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. Its highest single sample was 10 ppb. That was also the latest year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits2

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

6.4ppm

Highest sample; found in 51 of 52

2026 average: 3.6 ppm

The highest sample, in 2022, was 6.4 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, its four samples averaged 3.6 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 9.7 ppm, in 2012.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

22.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2026

2026 average: 14 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 22.5 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. Its highest single sample was 45 ppb. In 2026, the latest year on file, its two samples averaged 14 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 14 ppb, in 2014.

What handles it

4 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Fluoride
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead
  • Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

These come with the water itself, so a whole-house system certified for the same claims treats every tap and shower. A filter at the tap treats drinking water for much less. How whole-house systems compare.

Filters with those claims on a certifier’s listing

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Hardness

Moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 109 to 145 mg/L (6.4 to 8.5 grains per gallon), across 2 sampling points, 2020 to 2026.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?California water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Arsenic, nitrate, chromium (total), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5) and total trihalomethanes (TTHM) results here are California’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Fircrest Mutual Water Company’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; California’s results run from March 18, 2020 to June 2, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Fircrest Mutual Water Company’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab California certifies.

The 3 labs California certifies closest to the area Fircrest Mutual Water Company serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • K Prime, LLC.

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS

    (707) 527-7574

  • Brelje and Race Laboratories, Inc.

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (707) 544-8807

  • Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (707) 565-4711

All 145 certified labs for California

Sources

PWSID CA4900559. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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