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Is Port Gamble Tribal Community, WA tap water safe?

North Peninsula serves Port Gamble Tribal Community, 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

North Peninsula serves Port Gamble Tribal Community. In EPA’s and Washington’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 3.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from North Peninsula is soft to moderately hard depending on the source, 60 to 110 mg/L (3.5 to 6.4 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 North Peninsula’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Port Gamble Tribal Community

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 Port Gamble Tribal Community, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Spectra Laboratories - Kitsap, LLC

    Poulsbo, WA · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (360) 779-5141

  • Eurofins EPK Built Environment Testing, LLC

    Seattle, WA · about 12 miles

    Certified for bacteria, asbestos

    (206) 781-0155

  • Brooks Applied Labs, LLC

    Seattle, WA · about 13 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (206) 753-6119

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Port Gamble Tribal Community

Which ZIP codes are in Port Gamble Tribal Community: 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 Port Gamble Tribal Community

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