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Is Forrest City, AR tap water safe?

Forrest City Waterworks serves Forrest City, 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

Forrest City Waterworks serves Forrest City. In EPA’s records it has 1 result above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lead at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Forrest City Waterworks’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Forrest City

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 Forrest City

Which ZIP codes are in Forrest City: 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.