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Is Wake Forest, NC tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Wake Forest, 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

3 of the 15 utilities serving Wake Forest have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Deerchase S/D, Franklin County Water & Sewer and Mill Race.

Deerchase S/D, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 1.0 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 Wake Forest’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Wake Forest

By EPA’s estimate, each serves fewer people in Wake Forest than those above.

  • Trinity Farms S/Dserves 42 people · nearly all in Wake Forest · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Blackstone Meadowsserves 246 people · about 100 in Wake Forest · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Wakefield S/Dserves 408 people · about 100 in Wake Forest · no health-based violations since 2016
  • A Country Placeserves 89 people · nearly all in Wake Forest · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Mill Raceserves 122 people · under 100 in Wake Forest · no health-based violations since 2016

Water testing near Wake Forest

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

  • NC State Lab of Public Health

    Raleigh, NC · about 15 miles

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

    (919) 733-7308

  • RTI International

    Research Triangle Park, NC · about 16 miles

    Certified for lead and copper, metals

    (919) 485-5520

  • Wake County Human Services-Public Health Ctr.

    Raleigh, NC · about 16 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (919) 250-4437

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Wake Forest

Which ZIP codes are in Wake Forest: 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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