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Is Lackland AFB, TX tap water safe?

JBSA Lackland serves Lackland AFB, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Texas’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

JBSA Lackland serves Lackland AFB. In EPA’s and Texas’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Uranium at 0.37 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.

Water testing near Lackland AFB

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 Texas certifies.

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

  • San Antonio Testing Laboratory, LLC

    San Antonio, TX · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper

    (210) 229-9920

  • Alamo Analytical Laboratories, Ltd.

    San Antonio, TX · about 13 miles

    Certified for lead and copper

    (210) 340-8121

  • San Antonio Metropolitan Health District

    San Antonio, TX · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (210) 207-8887

Texas Well Owner Network, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension: Well Informed screening events, where well owners bring in water samples to be screened for common contaminants, followed by an hour-long session explaining the results. Upcoming events are on the network's calendar. Trainings, Texas Well Owner Network.

All 80 certified labs for Texas

ZIP codes in Lackland AFB

Which ZIP codes are in Lackland AFB: 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: TCEQ, drinking water laboratories approved for public water system samples; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

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