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Drinking Water Contaminants and Testing
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Drinking Water Contaminants and Testing
GCHD partners with Kuo to provide bottles to test your own drinking water for coliform bacteria and nitrates. Please call our office at 509-766-7960 for more information on bottle pick-up and drop-off times.
If you choose to use KUO lab, you can pick up bottles to sample from the box outside our office doors in Moses Lake. You must collect the water sample the same day you bring the sample back to our office. After you collect the water, the bottles can be dropped off at GCHD where the lab will pick them up to test the water. You can contact the labs for the costs of the tests and you are responsible to pay the lab for the test. Testing your water only shows a snapshot of the water quality at the time of testing, it does not guarantee future quality.