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Is St. Clair Shores, MI tap water safe?

City of St. Clair Shores serves St. Clair Shores, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of St. Clair Shores serves St. Clair Shores. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.1 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 City of St. Clair Shores’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near St. Clair Shores

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 Michigan certifies.

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

  • Biosan

    Warren, MI · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (586) 755-8970

  • Midwest Analytical Services, Inc

    Ferndale, MI · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (248) 591-6660

  • Absolute Laboratories, Inc.

    Auburn Hills, MI · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (877) 343-5227

All 193 certified labs for Michigan

ZIP codes in St. Clair Shores

Which ZIP codes are in St. Clair Shores: 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: EGLE, State of Michigan certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near St. Clair Shores

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

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