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Is Shaver Lake, CA tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Shaver Lake, 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

1 of the 2 utilities serving Shaver Lake has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records: Fcwwd 41/shaver Lake.

Fcwwd 41/shaver Lake, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the action level and 3 results above the health goal. The worst: Copper at 6.8 ppm, above the action level.

The water from Fcwwd 41/shaver Lake is soft to hard depending on the source, 9.7 to 145 mg/L (0.6 to 8.5 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 Shaver Lake’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 Fcwwd 41/shaver Lake’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 Shaver Lake

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

  • SGS North America, Inc.

    Clovis, CA · about 27 miles

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

    (559) 862-2118

  • BSK Associates

    Fresno, CA · about 31 miles

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

    (559) 497-2888

  • Moore Twining Associates, Inc.

    Fresno, CA · about 36 miles

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

    (559) 268-7021

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Shaver Lake

Which ZIP codes are in Shaver Lake: 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 Shaver Lake

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