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Is Brunswick, GA tap water safe?

Brunswick serves Brunswick, 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

Brunswick serves Brunswick. In EPA’s records it has nothing above a health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

That data covers what its report lists, not everything.

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.

Water testing near Brunswick

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 Georgia certifies.

The 3 labs Georgia certifies closest to Brunswick, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Woodward Sapp

    Brunswick, GA · under a mile

    Certified for bacteria

    (912) 265-2603

  • Tindal Enterprises/Altamaha Laboratories

    Blackshear, GA · about 46 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (912) 449-0999

  • Coastal H2O

    Savannah, GA · about 60 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (912) 352-4311

University of Georgia Agricultural and Environmental Services Laboratories: Well water tests for minerals, nitrate, lead and bacteria, sent in through your county Extension office, which supplies bottles and helps with sampling and fees. The lab lists $20 for its basic water test, $12 for nitrate, $40 for coliform bacteria, and $90 for the home loan set of lead, nitrate, nitrite and bacteria. Water Analyses, UGA Agricultural and Environmental Services Laboratories.

All 43 certified labs for Georgia

ZIP codes in Brunswick

Which ZIP codes are in Brunswick: 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: Georgia EPD, laboratories certified by Georgia for chemical, microbiological, PFAS, and lead and copper monitoring; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.