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Is Edwardsville, KS tap water safe?

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities serves Edwardsville, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Kansas’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Kansas City Board of Public Utilities serves Edwardsville. In EPA’s and Kansas’s records it has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 55.3 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Kansas City Board of Public Utilities is very hard, 295 mg/L (17.3 grains per gallon). How Kansas’s water 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 Kansas City Board of Public Utilities’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Edwardsville

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 Kansas certifies.

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

  • Water District No 1 of Johnson County-WaterOne

    Kansas City, KS · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (913) 895-5800

  • Eurofins Kansas City

    Lenexa, KS · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (319) 595-2009

  • Microbac Laboratories, Inc - Kansas

    Lenexa, KS · about 9 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (641) 792-8451

All 47 certified labs for Kansas

ZIP codes in Edwardsville

Which ZIP codes are in Edwardsville: 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: Kansas Department of Health and Environment, drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Edwardsville

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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