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Is Walnut Creek, NC tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Walnut Creek, 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

2 of the 3 utilities serving Walnut Creek have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: City of Goldsboro and Wayne Water Districts.

City of Goldsboro, which serves the most people here, has 2 results above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029 and 1 result above the health goal. The worst: PFOS at 6.8 ppt, above EPA’s new limit, which takes effect in 2029.

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 Walnut Creek’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Goldsboro’s water, which serves the most people here. Another utility’s report names what handles its own results.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Walnut Creek

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

  • Eurofins Greenville

    Greenville, NC · about 36 miles

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

    (252) 756-6208

  • Nash County Health Department

    Nashville, NC · about 45 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 459-1340

  • Wake County Human Services-Public Health Ctr.

    Raleigh, NC · about 45 miles

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

    (919) 250-4437

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Walnut Creek

Which ZIP codes are in Walnut Creek: 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 Walnut Creek

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

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