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Is Elmira, NY tap water safe?

Elmira Water Board serves Elmira, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and New York’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Elmira Water Board serves Elmira. In EPA’s and New York’s records it has 2 results 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 Elmira Water Board’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Elmira

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 New York certifies.

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

  • Ghm Environmental

    Savona, NY · about 26 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (607) 583-4332

  • Community Science Institute, Inc.

    Ithaca, NY · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (607) 257-6606

  • Pace Analytical Services, LLC - Wysox

    Wysox, PA · about 30 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (570) 866-0195

All 161 certified labs for New York

ZIP codes in Elmira

Which ZIP codes are in Elmira: 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: NYS Environmental Laboratory Approval Program (ELAP), drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Elmira

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

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