Why Test your Home's Drinking Water

Testing your home's drinking water is the only way to confirm if lead is present. Most water systems test for lead at a certain number of homes as a regular part of water monitoring. These tests give a system-wide picture of whether or not corrosion is being controlled but do not reflect conditions at each home served by that water system. Since each home has different plumbing pipes and materials, test results are likely to be different for each home.

You may want to test your water if:

• Your home has lead pipes (lead is a dull gray metal that is soft enough to be easily scratched with a house key)

• Your non-plastic plumbing was installed before 1986.

You can buy lead testing kits from EMSL to collect samples to then send to a laboratory for analysis.

Simply call us at 1-888-958-8170 or visit the Test Kits Section of this website.