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Is Windsor, NC tap water safe?

3 utilities serve Windsor, 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 3 utilities serving Windsor has a result above a legal limit or action level, or a health-based violation since 2016, in EPA’s and CDC’s records.

Bertie County Regional Water, which serves the most people here, has 1 result above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark. The worst: Lithium at 20.1 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. 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 Windsor’s ZIP codes, from EPA’s estimates.

Water testing near Windsor

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

  • JLA International, Inc.

    Edenton, NC · about 20 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 482-4456

  • 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

  • Northampton County Health Dept.

    Jackson, NC · about 40 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (252) 534-5841

All 112 certified labs for North Carolina

ZIP codes in Windsor

Which ZIP codes are in Windsor: 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 Windsor

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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