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Is Shaw Heights, CO tap water safe?

City of Westminster serves Shaw Heights, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Colorado’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Westminster serves Shaw Heights. In EPA’s and Colorado’s records it has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 21.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 City of Westminster’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Shaw Heights

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

  • Murray-Brown Laboratories, LLC.

    Northglenn, CO · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

  • 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 Shaw Heights

Which ZIP codes are in Shaw Heights: 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 Shaw Heights

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

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