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Is Providence, UT tap water safe?

Providence City Water System serves Providence, 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

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

The worst: Arsenic at 1.2 ppb, above the health goal. Health goals are stricter than legal limits and are not enforced.

The water from Providence City Water System is very hard, typically 296 mg/L (17.3 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 Providence City Water System’s water.

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Every claim, and more filters, in the full report

Water testing near Providence

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

  • Bear River District Health Department Water Laboratory

    Logan, UT · about 4 miles

    Certified for bacteria, nitrate

    (435) 792-6578

  • Brigham City Laboratory

    Brigham City, UT · about 17 miles

    Certified for bacteria, minerals and other inorganics

    (435) 226-1443

  • Northrup Grumman Space Systems Environmental Laboratory

    Corinne, UT · about 23 miles

    Certified for nitrate, lead and copper, metals, minerals and other inorganics

    (801) 863-8117

All 60 certified labs for Utah

ZIP codes in Providence

Which ZIP codes are in Providence: 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 Providence

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

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