How To Interpret The Results Of A Drinking Water Test

How should I interpret the results of a water test?

Once you get the result of a drinking water test, usually the laboratory test result have a column next to your water test result, there'll be a column that shows the federal standards. So it's a simply eyeball to go to this column to this column to compare: is your level below the federal standard or not. If it's higher then the federal standard (they're also maybe a local state standards as well that wouldn't be listed), if your number is higher than any of those numbers you've got a concern, you've got a problem. If you're getting a detection at all then that's usually in an appropriate detection, the ideal is for everything to be ND or Non Detect. If you've got a detection at all, then that means some source of contamination in your neighborhood contributing to that. It maybe minuscule, it maybe insignificant, if its say 5 to10 times below to the standard but if you start creeping up and getting closer to the federal standard, then that starts becoming a concern, maybe a reason to retest your water more frequently, maybe to put on a water filter to make sure that the levels aren't bouncing around and getting higher then the safe level.