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If you are buying or refinancing a well home in New York with a government-backed loan, the water sample must be collected and analyzed by a state-certified lab — not a mail-in kit. Here is how to find one and what to confirm before you schedule.
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New York's ELAP certification is issued per specific category, analyte, and method — not as one blanket approval. Here is how to use the state's free public search tool to confirm a lab is currently certified for your test before you schedule it.
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New York is offering free private-well PFAS testing and a treatment or public-water-connection rebate in six counties. Here is who qualifies, what the rebate covers, and why the lab that tests your water needs a certification most drinking-water labs don't automatically have.
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Westchester, Suffolk, and Rockland Counties each require a private-well water test before a home sale closes — and in each one, a self-collected or mail-in kit sample does not satisfy the law. Here is who tests, who pays, and what the sample-collection rule actually requires.
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