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Is Hat Island, WA tap water safe?

City of Everett Public Works Dept. serves Hat Island, 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

City of Everett Public Works Dept. serves Hat Island. In EPA’s and Washington’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 3.5 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from City of Everett Public Works Dept. is soft, 12 mg/L (0.7 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 Everett Public Works Dept.’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Hat Island

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 Hat Island, 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 · under a mile

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

    (425) 740-4597

  • Everett Environmental Laboratory

    Everett, WA · about 3 miles

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

    (425) 257-8230

  • Freshwater Analytical Labs, LLC

    Arlington, WA · about 19 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (360) 913-7542

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Hat Island

Which ZIP codes are in Hat Island: 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.