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Is Salmon Creek, WA tap water safe?

Clark Public Utilities serves Salmon Creek, 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

Clark Public Utilities serves Salmon Creek. In EPA’s and Washington’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 8.4 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

The water from Clark Public Utilities is soft to hard depending on the source, 25 to 140 mg/L (1.5 to 8.2 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 Clark Public Utilities’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Salmon Creek

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

  • BSK Associates - Vancouver

    Vancouver, WA · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics

    (360) 750-0055

  • Columbia Laboratories, Inc.

    Portland, OR · about 13 miles

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

    (503) 254-1794

  • Rose City Laboratories, LLC

    Portland, OR · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals

    (503) 307-0096

All 84 certified labs for Washington

ZIP codes in Salmon Creek

Which ZIP codes are in Salmon Creek: 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 Salmon Creek

Other towns in Clark County with a page of their own.

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