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Is Sierra Madre, CA tap water safe?

Sierra Madre - City, Water Dept. serves Sierra Madre, 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

Sierra Madre - City, Water Dept. serves Sierra Madre. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 0.71 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Sierra Madre - City, Water Dept. is hard to very hard depending on the source, 158 to 229 mg/L (9.2 to 13.4 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 Sierra Madre - City, Water Dept.’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Sierra Madre

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

  • EMSL Analytical, Inc. (LA Testing)

    South Pasadena, CA · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria, asbestos

    (323) 254-9960

  • Weck Laboratories, Inc.

    City of Industry, CA · about 11 miles

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

    (626) 336-2139

  • Michelson Laboratories, Inc.

    Commerce, CA · about 14 miles

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

    (562) 928-0553

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Sierra Madre

Which ZIP codes are in Sierra Madre: 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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