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Is Trinity Center, CA tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Trinity Center, 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

2 of the 3 utilities serving Trinity Center have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and California’s records: Trinity Knolls Mutual Water Company and Seymour'S Mutual Water System.

Trinity Center M.W.C., which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.8 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Trinity Center M.W.C. is moderately hard, 86 mg/L (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 Trinity Center’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 Trinity Center M.W.C.’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 Trinity Center

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

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Redding

    Redding, CA · about 38 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (530) 999-4051

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc. - Arcata

    Arcata, CA · about 67 miles

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

    (707) 822-4649

  • Humboldt County Public Health Laboratory

    Eureka, CA · about 73 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (707) 268-2179

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Trinity Center

Which ZIP codes are in Trinity Center: 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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