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Is Occidental, CA tap water safe?

5 utilities serve Occidental, 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

None of the 5 utilities serving Occidental has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records.

City of Sebastopol, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 16.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Sebastopol is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 101 to 160 mg/L (5.9 to 9.4 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 Occidental’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 City of Sebastopol’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 Occidental

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 Occidental, 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 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, PFAS

    (707) 527-7574

  • Brelje and Race Laboratories, Inc.

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 14 miles

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

    (707) 544-8807

  • Sonoma County Public Health Laboratory

    Santa Rosa, CA · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (707) 565-4711

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Occidental

Which ZIP codes are in Occidental: 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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