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Is Dash Point, WA tap water safe?

City of Tacoma Water Division serves Dash Point, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Washington’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

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The short answer

City of Tacoma Water Division serves Dash Point. In EPA’s and Washington’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 0.56 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Tacoma Water Division is soft to very hard depending on the source, 12 to 197 mg/L (0.7 to 11.5 grains per gallon). How Washington’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 City of Tacoma Water Division’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Dash Point

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 Washington certifies.

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

  • Water Management Laboratories, Inc.

    Tacoma, WA · about 6 miles

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

    (253) 531-3121

  • Analytical Resources, LLC

    Tukwila, WA · about 14 miles

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

    (206) 695-6200

  • AmTest Laboratories

    Renton, WA · about 15 miles

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

    (425) 885-1664

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Dash Point

Which ZIP codes are in Dash Point: 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: Washington State Department of Ecology, Lab Accreditation Program, environmental laboratories accredited for drinking water analyses; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Dash Point

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