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Is Fargo, ND tap water safe?

City of Fargo serves Fargo, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

City of Fargo serves Fargo. In EPA’s records it has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and 2 health-based violations since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 40 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

Some homes in a town are on private wells or a small system of their own. The name on your water bill tells you which is yours.

What handles it

Each of these is certified, on a certifier’s listing, for a result above a line in City of Fargo’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fargo

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 Dakota certifies.

TapBuff hasn’t read North Dakota’s list of certified labs yet. The national page links every state’s own list.

Certified labs, state by state

ZIP codes in Fargo

Which ZIP codes are in Fargo: 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.

Near Fargo

Towns nearby with a page of their own.

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