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Is Clarkson Valley, MO tap water safe?

MO American St Louis St Charles Counties serves Clarkson Valley, 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

MO American St Louis St Charles Counties serves Clarkson Valley. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 86.8 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 MO American St Louis St Charles Counties’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Clarkson Valley

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 Missouri certifies.

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

  • City of St. Louis-Howard Bend Laboratory

    Chesterfield, MO · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals

    (314) 256-5723

  • Missouri American Water Co.-St. Louis County

    Chesterfield, MO · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (314) 469-6050

  • Pace Analytical Services LLC-Hazelwood

    Hazelwood, MO · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (314) 432-0550

Missouri State Public Health Laboratory: Coliform and E. coli testing for private wells and other private drinking water sources, in kits from your local public health agency. A free state courier can carry the sample to the lab overnight. The handling fee is $10, by check or money order. Private Drinking Water Bacteriological Testing, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

All 64 certified labs for Missouri

ZIP codes in Clarkson Valley

Which ZIP codes are in Clarkson Valley: 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: Missouri DNR, certified microbiological and chemical laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Clarkson Valley

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