Carnation Tap Water Quality — ZIP 98014
LAKE MARGARET WATER SYSTEM · PWSID WA5344200 · Surface Water · 406 served
Live EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 snapshot for this ZIP — letter grade, violations, PFAS, and filter picks below. Full Carnation city report →
LAKE MARGARET WATER SYSTEM has no recorded violations in the EPA SDWIS database.
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Scores cap at 88/88 — even clean supplies have chlorine and disinfection byproducts federal records do not fully capture.
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No open violations or PFAS detections on record. That said, lead can still enter from your home's internal plumbing — especially in homes built before 1986.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · EPA LCR National Dataset · USGS NWIS
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