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Is Emerald Isle, NC tap water safe?

Bogue Banks Water Corporation serves Emerald Isle, 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

Bogue Banks Water Corporation serves Emerald Isle. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 1 result above the legal limit, 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 1 health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Total trihalomethanes (TTHM) at 41 ppb, above the legal limit.

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 Bogue Banks Water Corporation’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Emerald Isle

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

  • Carteret County Environmental Health

    Morehead City, NC · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 728-8499

  • Craven County Health Dept.-Env Health Lab

    New Bern, NC · about 29 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 636-4920

  • Beacham Laboratory- Division of Environmental

    Jacksonville, NC · about 31 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (910) 392-0223

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Emerald Isle

Which ZIP codes are in Emerald Isle: 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 Emerald Isle

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

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