Understanding Your Drinking Water Lab Results
To explain how your lab results reflect the quality of your water, your report includes a comments section that provides comprehensive information about the contaminants, as well as suggestions for corrective action.
Examples of some of the contaminants covered in the comments page are:
- Hardness
- Corrosivity, alkalinity, pH, calcium, conductivity, and temperature
- Chloride and fluoride
- Nitrate, nitrite, and orthophosphate
- Iron and manganese
- Sodium
- Sulfate
- Arsenic and lead
- Coliform bacteria