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Is Lawrence, IN tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Lawrence, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

1 of the 2 utilities serving Lawrence has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: City of Lawrence Utilities.

City of Lawrence Utilities, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the legal limit and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 40 ppb, above the legal limit.

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

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Lawrence Utilities’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 Lawrence

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 Lawrence, 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 Lawrence

Which ZIP codes are in Lawrence: 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.

Near Lawrence

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

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