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Is Oak Ridge, NC tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Oak Ridge, 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

None of the 15 utilities serving Oak Ridge has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.

The Estates of Oak Ridge Lake, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 17.6 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

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 Oak Ridge’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Oak Ridge

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Oak Ridge than those above.

  • Merriman Estates/Billet Placeserves 107 people · nearly all in Oak Ridge · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Huntcliff S/Dserves 262 people · nearly all in Oak Ridge · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Crutchfield Farms S/Dserves 84 people · nearly all in Oak Ridge · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Smoke Ridge Estatesserves 135 people · nearly all in Oak Ridge · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Foxbury Meadows S/Dserves 79 people · nearly all in Oak Ridge · no health-based violations since 2016

Water testing near Oak Ridge

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

  • Specialty LLC

    Greensboro, NC · about 6 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, lead and copper, metals

    (336) 510-7333

  • EMSL Analytical, Inc.-Kernersville

    Kernersville, NC · about 6 miles

    Certified for asbestos

    (336) 992-1025

  • Scientific Analytical Institute

    Greensboro, NC · about 13 miles

    Certified for bacteria, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics, asbestos

    (336) 292-3888

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Oak Ridge

Which ZIP codes are in Oak Ridge: 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.

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