Is Shingle Springs, CA tap water safe?
The short answer
Neither of the 2 utilities serving Shingle Springs has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records.
El Dorado ID - Main, which serves the most people here, has nothing above a health goal in EPA’s and California’s records. That data covers what its report lists, not everything.
The water from El Dorado ID - Main is soft, typically 12 mg/L (0.7 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 Shingle Springs’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.
- Open report
El Dorado ID - Main
California · serves 128,408 people · about 2,600 in Shingle Springs
Nothing in its records is above a health goal. Hardness: soft, typically 12 mg/L (0.7 grains per gallon).
No health-based violations since 2016
- Open report
Red Hawk Casino - Shingle Springs
California · serves 11,268 people · lists Shingle Springs among the places it serves
Nothing in its records is above a health goal.
No health-based violations since 2016
Water testing near Shingle Springs
The 3 labs California certifies closest to Shingle Springs, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Ceres Analytical Laboratory, Inc.
El Dorado Hills, CA · about 6 miles
Certified for organic chemicals
Onterris Laboratories, LLC
El Dorado Hills, CA · about 6 miles
Certified for organic chemicals, PFAS
California Laboratory Services
Rancho Cordova, CA · about 16 miles
Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts
ZIP codes in Shingle Springs
Which ZIP codes are in Shingle Springs: 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 Shingle Springs
Other towns in El Dorado County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read El Dorado ID - Main’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water