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Is Badger, AK tap water safe?

North Pole Utilities serves Badger, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

North Pole Utilities serves Badger. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the action level and 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Copper at 1.4 ppm, above the action level.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in North Pole Utilities’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Badger

A utility tests the water it sends out. A test of your own tap shows what your pipes add, and on a private well it is the only test there is. It takes a lab Alaska certifies.

The 2 labs Alaska certifies closest to Badger, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Bioenvironmental Engineering - Eielson AFB

    Eielson AFB, AK · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (907) 377-6700

  • Pollen Environmental, LLC

    Fairbanks, AK · about 45 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (907) 479-8368

All 37 certified labs for Alaska

ZIP codes in Badger

Which ZIP codes are in Badger: Census 2020 relationship files. Which utilities serve them, and how many people: EPA SDWIS and EPA’s service area map. Each utility’s results: EPA UCMR 5, EPA SDWIS, and EPA’s and the state’s compliance monitoring, as its report lists them. How they are measured: methodology. Certified labs: ADEC, laboratories certified to analyze drinking water (microbiological and chemical); distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Badger

Other towns in Fairbanks North Star Borough with a page of their own.

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