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Is Lafayette, OR tap water safe?

City of Lafayette serves Lafayette, 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

City of Lafayette serves Lafayette. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 3 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 86.9 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. A health benchmark is a level EPA screens with, not a legal limit.

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.

Water testing near Lafayette

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 Oregon certifies.

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

  • Willow Lake Laboratory, City of Salem

    Salem, OR · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper, minerals and other inorganics

    (503) 588-6380

  • Eurofins Wilsonville

    Wilsonville, OR · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (360) 757-1400

  • Alexin Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

    Tigard, OR · about 21 miles

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

    (503) 639-9311

Oregon State University Extension Well Water Program: Nitrate screening of well water at many of its groundwater education events. The screening is free. Water Testing Guidance for Private Wells, OSU Well Water Program.

All 91 certified labs for Oregon

ZIP codes in Lafayette

Which ZIP codes are in Lafayette: 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: Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Lafayette

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

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