Is Lawrenceville, GA tap water safe?
The short answer
Gwinnett Co. Dept. of Water Resources serves Lawrenceville. 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 Lawrenceville
The 3 labs Georgia certifies closest to Lawrenceville, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.
Georgia Environmental Protection Division Laboratory
Norcross, GA · about 13 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper, PFAS
Pace Analytical Services, Inc. - Atlanta
Norcross, GA · about 13 miles
Eurofins - Atlanta
Atlanta, GA · about 15 miles
Certified for bacteria, lead and copper
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 GeorgiaWhich ZIP codes are in Lawrenceville: 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.
Near Lawrenceville
Other towns in Gwinnett County with a page of their own.
What to do next
- Read Gwinnett Co. Dept. of Water Resources’s full reportEvery result with its dates, the violations, and the certification claim that handles each finding.Open the report
- Decide if you want a filter at allA filter for taste or chlorine is a preference, not a need. The standards say what each kind can do.NSF/ANSI standards, decoded
- On a private well?No utility tests a well. A certified lab test is the first step.How to test well water