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Is Warm Springs, CA tap water safe?

Elsinore Valley MWD serves Warm Springs, 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

Elsinore Valley MWD serves Warm Springs. In EPA’s and California’s records it has 1 result above the limit’s level with no violation recorded, 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 11.6 ppb, above the limit’s level, no violation. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Elsinore Valley MWD is soft to very hard depending on the source, 11 to 580 mg/L (0.6 to 33.9 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 Elsinore Valley MWD’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Warm Springs

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

  • Babcock Laboratories, Inc.

    Riverside, CA · about 17 miles

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

    (951) 653-3351

  • Sierra Analytical Labs, Inc.

    Laguna Hills, CA · about 23 miles

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

    (949) 348-9389

  • Clinical Laboratory of San Bernardino, Inc.

    Grand Terrace, CA · about 24 miles

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

    (909) 825-7693

All 145 certified labs for California

ZIP codes in Warm Springs

Which ZIP codes are in Warm 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 Warm Springs

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

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