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Is Rensselaer, NY tap water safe?

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

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The short answer

3 of the 3 utilities serving Rensselaer have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and New York’s records: Rensselaer City PWS, East Greenbush General W.D. and North Greenbush Consolidated District.

Rensselaer City PWS, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the legal limit and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 77.4 ppb, above the 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 Rensselaer’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Rensselaer City PWS’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Water testing near Rensselaer

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

  • Capital Region Environmental Laboratory

    Rensselaer, NY · under a mile

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

    (518) 949-2020

  • Adirondack Environmental Services Inc.

    Albany, NY · about 3 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, PFAS, asbestos

    (518) 434-4546

  • NYS DOH Environmental Biology Laboratory

    Albany, NY · about 5 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (518) 474-7161

All 161 certified labs for New York

ZIP codes in Rensselaer

Which ZIP codes are in Rensselaer: 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.

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