Your water report ends at the street.
We test your tap for what your home and pipes add after the street, read your district’s own filings for the rest, and grade all of it to where the health research says risk begins.
Above the health line. Under the legal limit. We flag it anyway.
| What we do | Contaminants | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Test by default | Lead, copper, THMs and HAA5 (disinfection byproducts) | Your home and pipes add these after the water leaves the plant, so your district’s report cannot see your tap. The kit tests these directly. |
| Read from your district report | PFAS (forever chemicals), hexavalent chromium, perchlorate, 1,4-dioxane, radionuclides | Your utility already tests for these at the source. We read their filings into your score, so you skip paying to lab-test what the report already tells us. If you want your own number, the lab test is available as an add-on. |
| Optional | GenX speciation, microplastics | For most homes the result points to the same fix, so we treat these as optional. One under-sink filter covers most of them either way. |
Thresholds: lead EPA MCLG and CDC, THMs CA OEHHA, PFAS CA OEHHA. Any lead detection is actionable. The PFAS goal is zero.