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Is Searcy, AR tap water safe?

4 utilities serve Searcy, 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 Searcy has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s records: Four Mile Hill Public Facilities Board.

Searcy Waterworks, 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 Searcy’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 Searcy Waterworks’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 Searcy

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 Searcy

Which ZIP codes are in Searcy: 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 Searcy

Other towns in White County with a page of their own.

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