Is Cazadero, CA tap water safe?
The short answer
1 of the 5 utilities serving Cazadero has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records: Huckleberry Mutual Water Company.
Sunrise Mountain Mutual Water Company, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and California’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from Sunrise Mountain Mutual Water Company is hard, typically 148 mg/L (8.6 grains per gallon). How California’s water 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 Cazadero’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
Sunrise Mountain Mutual Water Company
California · serves 100 people · under 100 in Cazadero
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, typically 148 mg/L (8.6 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Redwood Heights Mutual Water Company
California · serves 30 people · under 100 in Cazadero
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, 130 mg/L (7.6 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Austin Creek Mutual (Springhill)
California · serves 150 people · under 100 in Cazadero
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: hard, 150 mg/L (8.8 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Huckleberry Mutual Water Company
California · serves 45 people · under 100 in Cazadero
1 result above the action level. The worst: Copper at 2.0 ppm, above the action level. Hardness: moderately hard, 110 mg/L (6.4 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
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Odiyan Buddhist Retreat Center
California · serves 35 people · based in Cazadero
1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 4.0 ppb, above the health goal. Hardness: moderately hard to very hard depending on the source, 84 to 310 mg/L (4.9 to 18.1 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Cazadero
The 3 labs California certifies closest to Cazadero, 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 21 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS
Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory
Santa Rosa, CA · about 27 miles
Certified for bacteria
Brelje and Race Laboratories, Inc.
Santa Rosa, CA · about 28 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
ZIP codes in Cazadero
Which ZIP codes are in Cazadero: 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 Cazadero
Other towns in Sonoma County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Sunrise Mountain Mutual Water Company’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water