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Brown Taylor Water Co Inc

What EPA’s and Washington’s records show in this utility’s water: nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals; lead and copper; and violations since 2016, with the certification that handles each result.

Serves
30 people
Connections
30
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Yakima, WA
County
Yakima
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

98942

The short answer

1 result is above the health goal. The worst: Arsenic, above the health goal. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What handles it

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate and haloacetic acids (HAA5): Washington’s own results, samples taken from May 19, 2020 to Sept. 16, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Arsenic, fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from May 1, 2019 to May 1, 2019. Newer results are in the utility’s annual water quality report.

Above the health goal1

Arsenic

Comes from the source

Above the health goal

0.21ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.21 ppb, in 2019: below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppb, but above its health goal of zero. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction”

Below EPA’s limits4

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.56ppm

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.56 ppm, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.7ppb

Highest yearly average, 2022 to 2025

2025: not found

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.7 ppb, in 2022, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. In 2025, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 12.7 ppb, in 2013.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Trihalomethanes (TTHM) Reduction”

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.5ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.5 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

0.13ppm

Highest sample; found in 1 of 7

2026: not found

The highest sample, in 2020, was 0.13 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2026, the latest year on file, it wasn’t found in its one sample.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”
2 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Haloacetic acids (HAA5)
  • Lead

What handles it

A certification covers specific claims, not a whole standard. Look for these claims on the certifier’s listing, not the box. Wording varies a little: NSF writes “Lead Reduction,” WQA just “Lead.”

  • NSF/ANSI 53

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (III) (50 ppb influent level)

  • NSF/ANSI 58

    Claim: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=50 ppb Reduction

    For: Arsenic

    Other certifiers’ wording: Arsenic (Pentavalent)<=300 ppb Reduction; Arsenic (V) (300 ppb influent level)

At the tap, or for the whole house?

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There is 1 monitoring or reporting violation: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), nitrate and haloacetic acids (HAA5) results here are Washington’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Arsenic, fluoride and chromium (total) come from EPA’s file alone, which ends in 2019. Brown Taylor Water Co Inc’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has newer results for those and the contaminants this page does not show.

  • Your own plumbing. Lead results are the 90th percentile across homes the utility samples. Your home’s service line, solder and fixtures decide yours. A certified lab test is the only way to know.

  • What it means for your health. This page reports what the records show and EPA’s limits and goals; it is not medical advice. If you are worried about a health effect, talk to a doctor or your local health department.

  • Anything after the latest data. SDWIS data is from 2026 Q3; UCMR 5 didn’t sample this utility; Washington’s results run from May 19, 2020 to Sept. 16, 2026; EPA’s compliance samples are from May 1, 2019 to May 1, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Brown Taylor Water Co Inc’s results are for the water it sends out. What your own service line, solder and fixtures add shows up only in a test of your tap, by a lab Washington certifies.

The 3 labs Washington certifies closest to the area Brown Taylor Water Co Inc serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Anatek Labs, Inc. - Yakima

    Yakima, WA · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (509) 225-9404

  • LabTest

    Yakima, WA · about 13 miles

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

    (509) 469-8378

  • Anatek Labs, Inc - Wenatchee

    Wenatchee, WA · about 46 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (509) 701-8362

All 84 certified labs for Washington

Sources

PWSID WA5308815. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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