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Is Orem, UT tap water safe?

Orem City Water System serves Orem, by EPA’s records. Here is what EPA’s and Utah’s records show for it, against the legal limits and the stricter health goals.

Matched to your utility using EPA records.

The short answer

Orem City Water System serves Orem. In EPA’s and Utah’s records it has 2 results above the health goal and 1 result above EPA’s health benchmark, and no health-based violation since 2016.

The worst: Lithium at 26.9 ppb, above EPA’s health benchmark. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Orem City Water System is very hard, 195 mg/L (11.4 grains per gallon). How Utah’s water compares.

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 Orem City Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Orem

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 Utah certifies.

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

  • Provo Water Resources Laboratory

    Provo, UT · about 7 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (801) 852-6796

  • Jordan Valley Laboratory

    Herriman, UT · about 18 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate, minerals and other inorganics, disinfection byproducts

    (801) 446-2000

  • Wasatch County Health Department

    Heber City, UT · about 21 miles

    Certified for bacteria

    (435) 657-3303

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Orem

Which ZIP codes are in Orem: 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: Utah Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Drinking Water, certified laboratories; distances from the Census 2020 ZIP code tabulation area gazetteer.

Near Orem

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

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