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Is Pocatello, ID tap water safe?

City of Pocatello serves Pocatello, 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

City of Pocatello serves Pocatello. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Nitrate at 12 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 City of Pocatello’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Pocatello

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 2 labs Idaho certifies closest to Pocatello, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • IAS EnviroChem Laboratory

    Pocatello, ID · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

  • Teton Microbiology Laboratory

    Idaho Falls, ID · about 49 miles

    Certified for bacteria

All 33 certified labs for Idaho

ZIP codes in Pocatello

Which ZIP codes are in Pocatello: 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 Pocatello

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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