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Is Valley Acres, CA tap water safe?

West Kern Water District serves Valley Acres, 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

West Kern Water District serves Valley Acres. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Uranium at 27.7 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from West Kern Water District is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 72 to 175 mg/L (4.2 to 10.2 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 West Kern Water District’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Valley Acres

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

  • BSK Associates - Bakersfield Analytical Laboratory

    Bakersfield, CA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (661) 327-0671

  • Zalco Laboratories, Inc.

    Bakersfield, CA · about 27 miles

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

    (661) 395-0539

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC dba BC Laboratories, Inc.

    Bakersfield, CA · about 27 miles

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

    (661) 327-4911

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Valley Acres

Which ZIP codes are in Valley Acres: 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 Valley Acres

Other towns in Kern County with a page of their own.

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