A lot of cities across the country have had some nightmare scenarios when it comes to the city-provided drinking water. Fortunately, Greensboro is not one of them. The quality of the water flowing through city pipes to home taps is monitored throughout the year, but once a year, the City of Greensboro releases its Annual Drinking Water Quality Consumer Confidence Report – and that time is now.
The city has posted the yearly results for Greensboro water customers, who can find out what’s in their water by checking out greensboro-nc.gov/CCR.
(There’s also a link to the report in Spanish, which can be found at greensboro-nc.gov/CCRSP.)
The City of Greensboro’s Water Resources Department annual report is a performance measure of the quality of water done in accordance with standards established by the US Environmental Protection Agency as well as the NC Division of Water Resources.
If you don’t want to plow through some pretty dense scientific data, here’s the short-hand version of the results according to the city: “The City’s drinking water is safe and meets or surpasses all state and federal standards.”
A postcard instructing the city’s water clients how to find detailed information is also being sent out by snail mail to all of Greensboro’s water customers. The new online report can be accessed using the direct link or by scanning the QR code on the postcard. The report describes things like drinking water sources, the testing that’s been conducted, and what substances were detected in the water. It also includes “health effects information related to violations of drinking water standards, and other information of interest.”
City water officials say the drinking water is monitored according to federal and state regulations to ensure the production and distribution of high-quality water. The new report includes water quality lab data collected from January 1 to December 31, 2023. To obtain a copy (a Spanish version is available), call the City Contact Center at 336-373-2489. Copies are also available at the Water Resource Department Building located at 2602 S. Elm-Eugene St. and at Greensboro public libraries.
Those with questions about water quality or other city water issues should call the Water Quality Laboratory at 336-373-7527.
The quality may be good, but it tastes and smells like chlorine. Spring bottled water is often sold out in the gallon type at local stores.
Wish it had a way to be safe and taste good.
Greensboro doesn’t use chlorine to treat their water, they use chlormine if you know anything about it or research it you would never drink the water. It’s nasty stuff
why do so many people buy bottled water ?
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This is all very worthy Scott, but nobody’s interested in the obscure chemical composition of our drinking water – unless it’s full of poison!
You’re going to have to dig a little deeper into county and city government if you want to hold our interest.
Really.
Scott, you need conspiracy theories and over the top drama backed by misinformation and misdirection to hold the attention of Austin and Alan. Don’t worry, Alan writes enough rants to feed the fury.
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Chrissy prefers his news to be bland and inoffensive – like the News & Record.
He has a touching faith in “experts”, government officials, and “leaders”. He toes their line, so he doesn’t have to think for himself. Any challenge to their legitimacy shakes his cozy little World. His vacuity is matched only by his lazy obeisance.
But if The Rhino wants to lose readers like the News & Record, just keep turning out the pabulum.
Lol so you think a journalist role is to be offensive and not reference experts on the subject they are reporting? Yup…sounds a lot like you. Lol
I will stick with honest journalists value actual experts in assisting their writing to make sure they are accurate. You can stick with your drama queen buddies.
Before you lecture others, you should learn to write intelligible English, Genius Boy.
I appreciated the short version of water content. Don’t always need drama. 🙂
I ran out of bottled water and thought I could drink at least one glass of Greensboro’s faucet water. Wrong. Even after boiling the water it tasted absolutely awful; therefore, if you want to drink water you have to buy it.
NKH not all bottled water is pure. Do an internet search of the different brands it will open your eyes.
if ‘media’ is to be believed . . . all wells around our ‘top of watershed’ airport are contaminated & undrinkable without ‘reverse osmosis’ etc. does my COG tap water from this same source water need ‘boiling’ or ‘reverse osmosis’ to remove PFOS/PFAS/dioxin/PCB’s etc ? what resulted from the Pennsylvania company’s ‘pilot project’ to remove these toxins/ cost effective success?
Well, we run our brown tap water through a Brita filtering pitcher for drinking water (for tea, coffee and filling the ubiquitous refrigerator pitcher). So far the filtered water 5astes great and we see no need to resort to water in bottles made (usually) of phthalates. N. B. The city uses chloramines (predominately) rather than gaseous chlorine to sterilized our water; boiling which will drive off gaseous chlorine does nothing to remove the solid chloramines. Carbon filters will remove them, however.
Thanks for that insight, Dan. I have well water, and I think I’ll invest in one of those Brita pitcher filters if you recommend them.
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Also…
I suspect you’re British. What part of Blighty are you from?