Kind Water Co.
Iowa DNR + EPA testing · 2013-2023
What's really in your water?

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Ames Water Treatment Plant · Groundwater. Your water meets federal legal limits — but those limits haven't been updated in nearly 20 years.

⚠ PFAS DETECTED
PFAS (PFHxS) (a 'forever chemical') at 1,153x the health-based guideline. The EPA set its first-ever national PFAS limits in 2024 — reverse osmosis is one of the few proven ways to reduce it.
6
Above health guidelines
1,153x
PFAS (PFHxS) vs. guideline
129x
PFAS (PFOS+PFOA) vs. guideline
Bottom line: 6 contaminants came back above the latest health guidelines — led by PFAS 'forever chemicals' and chlorination byproducts. The good news: the right system reduces all of them.

Detected above health-based guidelines

Level found vs. a health-based guideline set by a federal or state public-health authority. Based on public Iowa DNR & U.S. EPA data.

Perfluorohexane sulfonate (PFHXS) · PFAS 'forever chemical'
1.15 ppt detected · guideline 0.001 ppt · legal limit 10 ppt
1,153x
Total PFOS and PFOA · PFAS 'forever chemical'
0.9 ppt detected · guideline 0.007 ppt · no federal limit set
129x
Haloacetic acids (HAA9) · disinfection byproduct
2.13 ppb detected · guideline 0.06 ppb · no federal limit set
36x
Radium, combined (-226 and -228) · radiological
1 pCi/L detected · guideline 0.05 pCi/L · legal limit 5 pCi/L
20x
Chromium (hexavalent) · naturally occurring / metals
0.216 ppb detected · guideline 0.02 ppb · no federal limit set
11x
Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) · PFAS 'forever chemical'
1.24 ppt detected · guideline 0.3 ppt · no federal limit set
4.1x
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Compiled from the EWG Tap Water Database, which aggregates the testing results utilities report to state agencies and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (detections 2013-2023). Official Iowa records are published by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. Levels are utility-wide averages and meet federal legal limits; 'health-based guideline' means EWG's own health guideline, which is not enforceable and is stricter than the federal legal limit. Informational only — not a medical or safety determination. Your home's water, especially on a private well, may differ; a free in-home test measures your actual water.

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