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Is Joshua Tree, CA tap water safe?

Joshua Basin Water District serves Joshua Tree, 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

Joshua Basin Water District serves Joshua Tree. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 3 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 9.6 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Joshua Basin Water District is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 41 to 97 mg/L (2.4 to 5.7 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 Joshua Basin Water District’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Joshua Tree

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

  • BSK Associates - San Bernardino Analytical Laboratory

    San Bernardino, CA · about 57 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (559) 497-2888

  • Babcock Laboratories, Inc.

    Riverside, CA · about 60 miles

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

    (951) 653-3351

  • Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino, Inc.

    Grand Terrace, CA · about 60 miles

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

    (909) 825-7693

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Joshua Tree

Which ZIP codes are in Joshua Tree: 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 Joshua Tree

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