Is San Elizario, TX tap water safe?
The short answer
Lower Valley Water District serves San Elizario. In EPA’s and Texas’s records it has 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.
The worst: Lithium at 75.7 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 San Elizario
The 3 labs Texas certifies closest to San Elizario, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
International Water Quality Lab
El Paso, TX · about 18 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
Eurofins Xenco, LLC -El Paso
El Paso, TX · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria
City of El Paso Department of Public Health
El Paso, TX · about 25 miles
Certified for bacteria
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 TexasZIP codes in San Elizario
Which ZIP codes are in San Elizario: 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.
Near San Elizario
Other towns in El Paso County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Lower Valley Water District’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- About LithiumWhat it does to health, where it comes from, and the certification claim that addresses it.About Lithium
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water