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Emanuel Heights Water System

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
60 people
Connections
21
Water source
Groundwater
Based in
Brewster, WA
County
Okanogan
Owner
Private
The ZIP code it serves

98812

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

Nitrate: Washington’s own results, samples taken from May 18, 2020 to June 10, 2025, with EPA’s 2012 to 2019 file for earlier years.

Arsenic, fluoride and chromium (total): EPA’s compliance monitoring file, samples taken from May 8, 2019 to May 8, 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

4.8ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 4.8 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 limits3

Nitrate

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

4.6ppm

Highest sample; found in 5 of 5

2025, one sample: 3.8 ppm

The highest sample, in 2020, was 4.6 ppm, below EPA’s legal limit of 10 ppm. In 2025, the latest year on file, its one sample was 3.8 ppm. Earlier, from 2012 to 2019, EPA’s file shows a highest sample of 4.9 ppm, in 2016.

What handles it

  • NSF/ANSI 58 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite Reduction”
  • NSF/ANSI 53 look for “Nitrate/Nitrite (30 ppm challenge)”

Fluoride

Forms or is added in treatment

Below EPA’s limits

0.33ppm

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 0.33 ppm, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 4.0 ppm. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

Chromium (total)

Comes from the source

Below EPA’s limits

3.0ppb

Highest yearly average, 2019

Averaged by year, the highest was 3.0 ppb, in 2019, below EPA’s legal limit of 100 ppb. That is the only year on file.

What handles it

One compound tested and not foundBelow the reporting level in every sample. Not found is not the same as zero.
  • 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)

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Violations since 2016

No health-based violations on file with EPA since 2016. There are 57 monitoring or reporting violations: a sample missed, late or not reported.

What this report can’t tell you

  • Everything else. Nitrate 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. Emanuel Heights Water System’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 18, 2020 to June 10, 2025; EPA’s compliance samples are from May 8, 2019 to May 8, 2019.

Testing your own tap

Emanuel Heights Water System’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 Emanuel Heights Water System serves, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Okanogan County Public Health Laboratory

    Okanogan, WA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (509) 422-7140

  • Anatek Labs, Inc - Wenatchee

    Wenatchee, WA · about 59 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (509) 701-8362

  • Soiltest Farm Consultants, Inc. Laboratory

    Moses Lake, WA · about 74 miles

    Certified for nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (509) 765-1622

All 84 certified labs for Washington

Sources

PWSID WA5326916. Rebuilt from EPA data on Oct. 18, 2026.

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