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Is Farmington, UT tap water safe?

Farmington City Water System serves Farmington, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Utah’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Farmington City Water System serves Farmington. In EPA’s and Utah’s records it has 3 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Uranium at 16.7 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Farmington City Water System is moderately hard, 97 mg/L (5.7 grains per gallon). How Utah’s water compares.

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 Farmington City Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Farmington

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 Utah certifies.

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

  • Weber Basin Water Quality Laboratory

    Layton, UT · about 9 miles

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

    (801) 771-1677

  • Davis County Environmental Health Laboratory

    Clearfield, UT · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (801) 525-5115

  • North Davis Sewer District Laboratory

    Syracuse, UT · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 825-0712

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Farmington

Which ZIP codes are in Farmington: 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: Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water, certified laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Farmington

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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