Woodbury Drinking Water Reports: How to Read PFAS Results

Woodbury publishes water-quality and PFAS information for its municipal supply. Read the date, sample location, and treatment context before interpreting a number. A measurement from a source well is not automatically the concentration at a household tap.

Start with the city’s current report

Use the city’s current water-quality report and monitoring page rather than relying on an old screenshot or a third-party summary. The year in a report identifies the reporting period; a later project update may describe treatment that changed afterward.

Woodbury’s PFAS monitoring page states that health advisories have been issued for nine of its 20 municipal wells and that all nine are being treated. That statement describes the utility’s wells and treatment response. It does not by itself measure a particular household’s tap water.

Check the heading above the numbers

The city’s December 2025 table is labeled for wells potentially operating without treatment. Those ranges describe source wells, not the concentration in all finished water or the result at every Woodbury home.

Regulatory limits, health-based guidance, and actual measurements are different things. For current health guidance, follow MDH directly. Avoid calculating a household risk from an unlabeled mix of source-well readings and older thresholds.

Hardness is a separate decision

PFAS treatment information does not answer how much hardness is at your tap. Ask about delivered-water hardness or have it measured, accounting for any existing household treatment. Softening addresses hardness and is not a PFAS treatment.

If you want to consider household treatment

Begin with the supply information and the question you want answered. For PFAS, choose equipment by its exact model and specific reduction claim. A point-of-use option for drinking and cooking water can be considered; city history alone does not require whole-home equipment.

See our Woodbury service page, water resources, and filtration service.

Start with the right test

The free basic in-home test checks hardness, iron, chlorine, pH, total dissolved solids, and alkalinity, plus nitrate for well-water customers. It does not measure PFAS or establish drinking-water safety.

A.J. Alberts offers separate paid PFAS testing for municipal-water and private-well customers. We collect and submit the sample and explain the laboratory report. Ask about the scope and price when booking.

Schedule a free basic water test or call 651-738-0580. For PFAS testing, identify that request when you contact us.

Sources

• City of Woodbury, PFAS monitoring
• MDH, PFAS and health
• EPA, filter certification