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Is Livermore, CA tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Livermore, 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.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

1 of the 4 utilities serving Livermore has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records: Doubletree Ranch Water System.

Zone 7 Water Agency, which serves the most people here, has 3 results above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 6.7 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Livermore’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 Zone 7 Water Agency’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 Livermore

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

  • Alpha Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

    Livermore, CA · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (707) 769-3128

  • AEMTEK, Inc

    Fremont, CA · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (510) 979-1979

  • Torrent Laboratory, Inc

    Milpitas, CA · about 20 miles

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

    (408) 263-5258

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Livermore

Which ZIP codes are in Livermore: 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 Livermore

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