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Is Washburn, IA tap water safe?

Waterloo Water Works serves Washburn, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Iowa’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Waterloo Water Works serves Washburn. In EPA’s and Iowa’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 20 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 Waterloo Water Works’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Washburn

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 Iowa certifies.

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

  • Microbac Laboratories - Waterloo

    Waterloo, IA · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (319) 235-4440

  • Eurofins - Cedar Falls

    Cedar Falls, IA · about 10 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (319) 277-2401

  • Linn County Public Health Department

    Cedar Rapids, IA · about 47 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (319) 892-6000

State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa: Through the Grants-to-Counties program, private well owners in participating counties can have their water tested for total coliform bacteria and nitrate. Start with the county sanitarian at your county health department. No cost in a participating county. The Grants-to-Counties Program, State Hygienic Lab at the University of Iowa.

All 36 certified labs for Iowa

ZIP codes in Washburn

Which ZIP codes are in Washburn: 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: Iowa DNR, laboratories certified for drinking water; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Washburn

Other towns in Black Hawk County with a page of their own.

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