What's in our water? Environmental group charts contaminants found in greater Lafayette - Journal & Courier

LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Tap water can be taken for granted.

You turn on the tap, and there's water.

But what's in our water?

The Environmental Working Group last week released its nationwide Tap Water Database, which tries to answer that question in a comprehensive manner.

The Tap Water Database is a collection of U.S. water contaminant test data from almost 50,000 water systems. Researchers and scientists analyze if the tap water in areas meet the federal standards while also meeting the standards that EWG’s believes tap water quality ought to be.

“EWG’s Tap Water Database offers a panoramic view of what drinking water quality looks like when the federal office meant to protect our water is in an advanced stage of regulatory capture,” said Ken Cook, president of EWG.

“The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Groundwater and Drinking Water has demonstrated for decades that it is utterly incapable of standing up to pressure from water utilities and polluters to protect human health from the dozens of toxic contaminants in America’s drinking water.”

Regarding Tippecanoe County, both Lafayette Water Works and Indiana American Water-West Lafayette appear within the database.

Notably, the database indicated that both facilities have contaminants detected within the water, but it also noted both facilities also meet the legally mandated federal standards.

Lafayette's tap water

Within the Lafayette WaterWorks water, the EWG’s database detected 20 contaminants, highlighting...

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