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Is Fairfield Glade, TN tap water safe?

Cumberland Plateau Water Authority #1 serves Fairfield Glade, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and CDC’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Cumberland Plateau Water Authority #1 serves Fairfield Glade. In EPA’s and CDC’s records it has 2 results above the health goal, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Arsenic at 1.0 ppb, above the health goal. 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 Cumberland Plateau Water Authority #1’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Fairfield Glade

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 Tennessee certifies.

The 3 labs Tennessee certifies closest to Fairfield Glade, in a straight line. Call first: certification is test by test, and not every lab takes samples from homeowners.

  • Assured Bio Labs, LLC

    Oak Ridge, TN · about 34 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (865) 813-1700

  • DOE Y-12 CNS National Security Complex

    Oak Ridge, TN · about 34 miles

    Certified for metals, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts, radioactivity

    (865) 576-3099

  • Eberline Analytical Oak Ridge

    Oak Ridge, TN · about 34 miles

    Certified for radioactivity

    (865) 481-0683

Tennessee Department of Health: Water quality testing for eligible private wells and springs, through the program formerly called SafeWATCH. Contact the department's Waterborne Disease Team to ask about eligibility. Free for eligible wells and springs. Waterborne Diseases, Tennessee Department of Health.

All 37 certified labs for Tennessee

ZIP codes in Fairfield Glade

Which ZIP codes are in Fairfield Glade: 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: TDEC, commercial laboratories certified for drinking water analysis; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Fairfield Glade

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