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Is Four Lakes, WA tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Four Lakes, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Washington’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

None of the 3 utilities serving Four Lakes has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and Washington’s records.

City of Cheney, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 18.9 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Cheney is moderately hard to hard depending on the source, 110 to 160 mg/L (6.4 to 9.4 grains per gallon). How Washington’s water compares.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Four Lakes’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Cheney’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Four Lakes

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 Four Lakes, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Anatek Labs, Inc - Spokane

    Spokane, WA · about 20 miles

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

    (509) 838-3999

  • Tshimakain Creek Laboratories

    Spokane Valley, WA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (509) 928-3577

  • Eurofins Spokane

    Spokane Valley, WA · about 23 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (509) 924-9200

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Four Lakes

Which ZIP codes are in Four Lakes: 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 Four Lakes

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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