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Is Cushman, AR tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Cushman, 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

2 of the 4 utilities serving Cushman have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records: Pfeiffer Water Authority and Rock Moore Water Authority.

Batesville Water Utilities, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Lead at 1.0 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 Cushman’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 Batesville Water Utilities’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 Cushman

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 Arkansas certifies.

TapBuff hasn’t read Arkansas’s list of certified labs yet. The national page links every state’s own list.

Certified labs, state by state

ZIP codes in Cushman

Which ZIP codes are in Cushman: 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.

Near Cushman

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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