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Is Mountain Home AFB, ID tap water safe?

Mountain Home Air Force Base serves Mountain Home AFB, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Mountain Home Air Force Base serves Mountain Home AFB. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit and 2 results above the health goal, and 15 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Nitrate at 29 ppm, above the legal limit.

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 Mountain Home Air Force Base’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Mountain Home AFB

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 Idaho certifies.

The lab Idaho certifies closest to Mountain Home AFB, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Analytical Laboratories

    Boise, ID · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals

All 33 certified labs for Idaho

ZIP codes in Mountain Home AFB

Which ZIP codes are in Mountain Home AFB: 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: Idaho Bureau of Laboratories, drinking water laboratory certificates; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Mountain Home AFB

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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