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Is Carrboro, NC tap water safe?

Orange Water & Sewer Authority serves Carrboro, 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

Orange Water & Sewer Authority serves Carrboro. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: PFOS at 4.8 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Orange Water & Sewer Authority’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Carrboro

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 Carrboro, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Onterris Laboratories, LLC - Durham

    Durham, NC · about 11 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (804) 358-8295

  • Durham County Health Department

    Durham, NC · about 14 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (919) 560-7975

  • RTI International

    Research Triangle Park, NC · about 16 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (919) 485-5520

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Carrboro

Which ZIP codes are in Carrboro: 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 Carrboro

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

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