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Is Fair Oaks, CA tap water safe?

6 utilities serve Fair Oaks, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and California’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

None of the 6 utilities serving Fair Oaks has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records.

Fair Oaks Water District, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic at 1.2 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Fair Oaks Water District is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 53 to 120 mg/L (3.1 to 7 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 Fair Oaks’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Fair Oaks Water District’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fair Oaks

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 Fair Oaks, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • BSK Associates - Sacramento Analytical Laboratory

    Sacramento, CA · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (559) 497-2888

  • California Laboratory Services

    Rancho Cordova, CA · about 5 miles

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

    (916) 638-7301

  • Sparger Technology, Inc.

    Sacramento, CA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (916) 369-7688

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Fair Oaks

Which ZIP codes are in Fair Oaks: 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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