- EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found 2.
- Lithium: found in 10 of 10 samples, average 38.4 µg/L, highest 51.5 µg/L (EPA UCMR 5 testing, Mar 2025–Sep 2025)
- PFPeA (a PFAS): found in 1 of 10 samples, average 0.30 ppt, highest 3.2 ppt (EPA UCMR 5 testing, Mar 2025–Sep 2025)
- Lead, 90th percentile: 0 ppb at the latest result in EPA records for a monitoring period that ran on or after July 1, 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period Jan 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2026). The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
Public EPA test results
Can you drink Cottonwood tap water? What EPA records show
EPA AZ0413025 · serves Cottonwood, AZ · about 11,288 people (EPA SDWIS)
This report shows EPA's federal records for this water system: UCMR 5 testing, lead testing and violations. It isn't a test of the water at your tap, and it has no Water Score.
Public EPA test results
Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1 (EPA AZ0413025)
EPA data as of October 14, 2026. For Cottonwood's main utility, Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1: We found no health-based violations in EPA's records for this system (AZ0413025) since July 1, 2021, as of October 14, 2026. PFOA and PFOS were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in EPA's UCMR 5 testing.
What EPA records show for Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1, as of October 14, 2026
We found no health-based violations in EPA's records for this system (AZ0413025) since July 1, 2021, as of October 14, 2026.
Source: EPA ECHO record for Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1 (SDWIS). Data as of October 14, 2026.
Lead, 90th percentile: 0 ppb at the latest result in EPA records for a monitoring period that ran on or after July 1, 2021, at or below EPA's 15 ppb action level (EPA SDWIS, monitoring period Jan 1, 2024–Dec 31, 2026). The 90th percentile is a system-wide measure from homes sampled under EPA's lead rule; it isn't a result for your home.
EPA's UCMR 5 testing looked for 30 contaminants here and found 2.
PFOA and PFOS were not detected at or above EPA's reporting level in EPA's UCMR 5 testing.
Source: EPA records (SDWIS, UCMR 5). SDWIS: data as of Oct 14, 2026. EPA UCMR 5 data, samples through June 2026.
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Does Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1 use chloramine?
We didn't find chloramine in Cottonwood Municipal Water Cw1's EPA treatment records. That's not a complete list; your utility's annual water quality report says which disinfectant it uses.