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Is Ivanhoe, CA tap water safe?

Ivanhoe Public Utility Dist serves Ivanhoe, 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

Ivanhoe Public Utility Dist serves Ivanhoe. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 3 results above the health goal, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Nitrate at 19 ppm, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Ivanhoe Public Utility Dist is moderately hard to very hard depending on the source, 110 to 330 mg/L (6.4 to 19.3 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 Ivanhoe Public Utility Dist’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Ivanhoe

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

  • Fruit Growers Laboratory, Inc.

    Visalia, CA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (559) 734-9473

  • Sierra Dairy Laboratory

    Tulare, CA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (559) 686-2070

  • BSK Associates

    Fresno, CA · about 35 miles

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

    (559) 497-2888

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Ivanhoe

Which ZIP codes are in Ivanhoe: 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 Ivanhoe

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

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