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Los Angeles tap water: lead 0.0039 mg/L, 2 health-based EPA violations on record. Plain-English report and a free home water test.
4 measured results on file across every sampling period the EPA publishes.
Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power (PWSID CA1910067) has 4 violations in the EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System, 2 of them health-based, the most recent beginning Jan 2018.
Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power has no health-based EPA violations in the last three years, and 2 older ones on record. Its measured lead results are listed on this page. What your own plumbing adds is a separate question, which is what the free in-home test answers.
Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power's most recent Lead and Copper Rule result, from the 2021 to 2023 monitoring period, measured 0.0039 mg/L of lead at the 90th percentile of tested homes. The federal action level is 0.015 mg/L, so the system result sits under it. Lead usually enters water from a home's own pipes and fixtures, so a single house can differ from the system figure.
The EPA record lists 4 violations for this system, 2 of them health-based, the most recent beginning Jan 2018. The rest are monitoring and reporting notes.
Los Angeles-City, Dept. of Water & Power serves about 3,875,566 people in Los Angeles County and relies mainly on surface water. It is public water system CA1910067.
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