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Is Fort Lewis, WA tap water safe?

Jblm Lewis serves Fort Lewis, 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.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Jblm Lewis serves Fort Lewis. In EPA’s and Washington’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 11.1 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Jblm Lewis is soft, typically 50 mg/L (2.9 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 Jblm Lewis’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fort Lewis

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 Fort Lewis, 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 13 miles

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

    (253) 531-3121

  • Thurston County Health Department Laboratory

    Olympia, WA · about 15 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (360) 867-2631

  • Olympic Analytical LLC dba Vanguard Laboratory

    Olympia, WA · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (360) 967-7010

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Fort Lewis

Which ZIP codes are in Fort Lewis: 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 Fort Lewis

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