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Is Wendell, NC tap water safe?

15 utilities serve Wendell, 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

4 of the 15 utilities serving Wendell have a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records: Ridgehaven S/D, Amber Acres North S/D, Deerhurst Mhc and 1 more.

Edgemont MHP, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal. The worst: Uranium at 1.7 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 Wendell’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

5 more utilities in Wendell

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

  • Eaglewood Farms S/Dserves 102 people · under 100 in Wendell · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Davis Town MHPserves 119 people · under 100 in Wendell · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Stewarts Ridge S/Dserves 125 people · under 100 in Wendell · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Wood Trace S/Dserves 117 people · lists Wendell among the places it serves · no health-based violations since 2016
  • Pleasant Hill Mobile Estatesserves 62 people · lists Wendell among the places it serves · 1 health-based violation since 2016

Water testing near Wendell

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

  • Wake County Human Services-Public Health Ctr.

    Raleigh, NC · about 9 miles

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

    (919) 250-4437

  • NC State Lab of Public Health

    Raleigh, NC · about 19 miles

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

    (919) 733-7308

  • Eurofins Built Env. Testing East - Cary

    Cary, NC · about 22 miles

    Certified for asbestos

    (919) 481-1413

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Wendell

Which ZIP codes are in Wendell: 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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