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Is Addis, LA tap water safe?

West Baton Rouge Water Works District 2 serves Addis, 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

West Baton Rouge Water Works District 2 serves Addis. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. 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 West Baton Rouge Water Works District 2’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Addis

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 Louisiana certifies.

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

  • LDH Central Laboratory

    Baton Rouge, LA · about 8 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (225) 219-5200

  • Element Materials Technology Lafayette, LLC

    Lafayette, LA · about 48 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

  • Curtis Environmental Services, Inc.

    LaPlace, LA · about 51 miles

    Certified for minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

All 48 certified labs for Louisiana

ZIP codes in Addis

Which ZIP codes are in Addis: 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: LDH, laboratories certified by Louisiana for drinking water analysis; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Addis

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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