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Is Fairbanks, AK tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Fairbanks, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for each, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

1 of the 4 utilities serving Fairbanks has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records: University of Alaska - Fairbanks.

Ft Wainwright - Main Post, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 3.1 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

A town can be served by more than one utility, and some homes are on private wells. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours, and your ZIP code narrows it down. They are listed by how many people each serves in Fairbanks’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in Ft Wainwright - Main Post’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fairbanks

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 Fairbanks, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Pollen Environmental, LLC

    Fairbanks, AK · about 42 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (907) 479-8368

  • Bioenvironmental Engineering - Eielson AFB

    Eielson AFB, AK · about 60 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (907) 377-6700

All 37 certified labs for Alaska

ZIP codes in Fairbanks

Which ZIP codes are in Fairbanks: 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 Fairbanks

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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