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Is Beale AFB, CA tap water safe?

Beale Air Force Base serves Beale AFB, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and California’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Beale Air Force Base serves Beale AFB. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Beale Air Force Base is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 89 to 127 mg/L (5.2 to 7.4 grains per gallon). How California’s water compares.

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 Beale Air Force Base’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Beale AFB

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 California certifies.

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

  • Cranmer Engineering, Inc.

    Grass Valley, CA · about 19 miles

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

    (530) 273-7284

  • BSK Associates - Sacramento Analytical Laboratory

    Sacramento, CA · about 36 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (559) 497-2888

  • Onterris Laboratories, LLC

    El Dorado Hills, CA · about 36 miles

    Certified for organic chemicals, PFAS

    (916) 673-1520

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Beale AFB

Which ZIP codes are in Beale AFB: 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: California State Water Resources Control Board, ELAP accredited laboratories and their fields of accreditation; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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