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Is Waverly, MI tap water safe?

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

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

None of the 3 utilities serving Waverly has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records.

Lansing Board of Water & Light, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 19.6 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. A health benchmark is a level EPA screens with, not a 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 Waverly’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

Water testing near Waverly

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 Waverly, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • EGLE Laboratory Services

    Lansing, MI · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, PFAS, radioactivity

    (517) 335-8184

  • FT Guru's Laboratory

    Clinton Township, MI · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (586) 300-6046

  • Metiri Group-Holt Formerly Fibertec

    Holt, MI · about 8 miles

    Certified for PFAS

    (517) 699-0345

All 193 certified labs for Michigan

ZIP codes in Waverly

Which ZIP codes are in Waverly: 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 Waverly

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