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Is Lakewood, CO tap water safe?

13 utilities serve Lakewood, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Colorado’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

3 of the 13 utilities serving Lakewood have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Colorado’s records: Green Mountain WSD, Wheat Ridge Water District and Mountainside Estates MHP.

Consolidated Mutual Maple Grove, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 18.7 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Lakewood’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

3 more utilities in Lakewood

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Lakewood than those above.

  • Sheridan MHPserves 480 people · based in Lakewood · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Elevado Estates LLCserves 250 people · based in Lakewood · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Majestic MHPserves 232 people · based in Lakewood · no health-based violations since 2016

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Consolidated Mutual Maple Grove’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 Lakewood

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 Colorado certifies.

The 3 labs Colorado certifies closest to Lakewood, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • SGS North America, Inc. - Wheat Ridge

    Wheat Ridge, CO · about 5 miles

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

  • Eurofins Denver

    Arvada, CO · about 7 miles

    Certified for nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, PFAS

  • Eurofins Reservoirs Environmental, Inc.

    Arvada, CO · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 54 certified labs for Colorado

ZIP codes in Lakewood

Which ZIP codes are in Lakewood: 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: CDPHE certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Lakewood

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

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