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Camano Shores Community

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
79 people
Connections
61
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Stanwood, WA
County
Island
Owner
Private
Hardness
Hard
The ZIP code it serves

98282

The short answer

Nothing in EPA’s and Washington’s records for this utility is above a health goal. That covers nitrate, arsenic and other regulated chemicals, plus lead and copper, not everything. No health-based violations on file since 2016.

What was found

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate: Washington’s own results, samples taken from Aug. 26, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Below EPA’s limits4

Total trihalomethanes (TTHM)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

7.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

Averaged by year, the highest was 7.2 ppb, in 2024, below EPA’s legal limit of 80 ppb. That was also the latest year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 7.4 ppb, in 2017.

What handles it

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

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.12ppm

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.12 ppm, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 0.46 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

Haloacetic acids (HAA5)

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

1.4ppb

Highest yearly average, 2020 to 2024

2024, one sample: 1.0 ppb

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.4 ppb, in 2020, below EPA’s legal limit of 60 ppb. In 2024, the latest year on file, its one sample was 1.0 ppb. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest yearly average of 1.1 ppb, in 2012.

What handles it

No certification claim covers this compound yet.

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

1.2ppb

Highest yearly average, 2025

Averaged by year, the highest was 1.2 ppb, in 2025, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

3 compounds tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • Arsenic
  • Lead
  • Nitrate

Hardness

Hard, 135 mg/L (7.9 grains per gallon), at its one sampling point, 2025 to 2026.

Hardness is calcium and magnesium. EPA sets no limit for it: it shows up as scale on fixtures and in water heaters, and as soap that won’t lather. USGS calls water above 60 mg/L moderately hard, above 120 hard and above 180 very hard.

Softeners compared at 7.9 grains per gallon, salt includedSoftener or salt-free conditioner?Washington water hardness, utility by utility

Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 4 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Total trihalomethanes (TTHM), fluoride, haloacetic acids (HAA5), chromium (total), arsenic and nitrate results here are Washington’s own from 2020 on, with EPA’s national file for 2012 to 2019. Camano Shores Community’s own annual report, which it must send you every year, has 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 Aug. 26, 2020 to Aug. 26, 2026.

Testing your own tap

Camano Shores Community’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 Camano Shores Community serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Precision Analytical Laboratories, LLC

    Everett, WA · about 20 miles

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

    (425) 740-4597

  • Eurofins DW and WW West, Washington Laboratory

    Burlington, WA · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (360) 757-1400

  • Everett Environmental Laboratory

    Everett, WA · about 22 miles

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

    (425) 257-8230

All 84 certified labs for Washington

Sources

PWSID WA5310744. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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