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Is Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA tap water safe?

Cal Am Water Company - Monterey serves Carmel-by-the-Sea, 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

Cal Am Water Company - Monterey serves Carmel-by-the-Sea. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOA at 8.1 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Cal Am Water Company - Monterey’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Carmel-by-the-Sea

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 Carmel-by-the-Sea, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Monterey Bay Analytical Services, Inc.

    Monterey, CA · about 7 miles

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

    (831) 375-6227

  • Monterey County Consolidated Environmental Laboratory

    Salinas, CA · about 19 miles

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

    (831) 755-4516

  • Santa Cruz County - Health Services Agency - Environmental Health

    Santa Cruz, CA · about 35 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (831) 454-4624

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Carmel-by-the-Sea

Which ZIP codes are in Carmel-by-the-Sea: 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.

Near Carmel-by-the-Sea

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

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