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Is Carolina Beach, NC tap water safe?

Carolina Beach Water System serves Carolina Beach, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Carolina Beach Water System serves Carolina Beach. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 19.2 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. 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 Carolina Beach Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Carolina Beach

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 North Carolina certifies.

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

  • Alliance Technical Group, LLC - Wilmington

    Wilmington, NC · about 6 miles

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

    (910) 793-0128

  • Cape Fear Analytical, LLC

    Wilmington, NC · about 15 miles

    Certified for organic chemicals

    (910) 795-0421

  • Environmental Chemists, Inc.

    Wilmington, NC · about 15 miles

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

    (910) 392-0223

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Carolina Beach

Which ZIP codes are in Carolina Beach: 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: North Carolina State Laboratory of Public Health, certified drinking water laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Carolina Beach

Other towns in New Hanover County with a page of their own.

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