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Is Carson City, NV tap water safe?

Carson City Public Works serves Carson City, 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

Carson City Public Works serves Carson City. In EPA’s records it has 3 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 59.2 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 Carson City Public Works’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Carson City

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 Nevada certifies.

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

  • Silver State Analytical Laboratories - Reno

    Reno, NV · about 22 miles

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

    (775) 857-2400

  • Nevada State Public Health Laboratory

    Reno, NV · about 25 miles

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

    (775) 682-6205

  • Western Environmental Testing - Sparks

    Sparks, NV · about 25 miles

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

    (775) 355-0202

All 52 certified labs for Nevada

ZIP codes in Carson City

Which ZIP codes are in Carson City: 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: NDEP Laboratory Approval Status, drinking water parameters; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Carson City

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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