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Is Hillsborough, NH tap water safe?

2 utilities serve Hillsborough, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’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 2 utilities serving Hillsborough have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Hillsborough Water Works and Emerald Lake.

Hillsborough Water Works, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the action level. The worst: Lead at 33 ppb, above the action level.

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 Hillsborough’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 Hillsborough Water Works’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 Hillsborough

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 New Hampshire certifies.

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

  • New Hampshire DHHS Public Health Laboratories

    Concord, NH · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (603) 271-3445

  • Eurofins Concord

    Concord, NH · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, organic chemicals, disinfection byproducts

    (603) 228-0525

  • Nelson Analytical Lab - Keene Division

    Swanzey, NH · about 22 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (603) 357-2577

All 63 certified labs for New Hampshire

ZIP codes in Hillsborough

Which ZIP codes are in Hillsborough: 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: New Hampshire ELAP, drinking water labs, as listed in TNI LAMS; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Hillsborough

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

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