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Is Clermont, IN tap water safe?

Citizens Water - Indianapolis serves Clermont, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Citizens Water - Indianapolis serves Clermont. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 3.4 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Citizens Water - Indianapolis is very hard on average, 317 mg/L (18.5 grains per gallon), ranging from 148 to 460 mg/L. How it 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 Citizens Water - Indianapolis’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Clermont

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 Indiana certifies.

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

Indiana Department of Health laboratory: Test kits for well water: nitrate, fluoride, and arsenic, lead and copper, ordered from the lab and returned by mail. They are open to the public. Nitrate is $10 a sample plus $6.50 shipping per order, fluoride $10 plus shipping, and the arsenic, lead and copper kit $20 plus $6.50 shipping. Water Testing, Indiana Department of Health.

All 81 certified labs for Indiana

ZIP codes in Clermont

Which ZIP codes are in Clermont: 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: Indiana Department of Health, certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.