Making Safe Drinking Water

Your drinking water comes from a groundwater source: five wells ranging from 140 to 572 feet deep that draw water from the Quaternary Buried Unconfined, Animikie Group, and Quaternary Buried Artesian aquifers.

Grand Rapids works hard to provide you with safe and reliable drinking water that meets federal and state water quality requirements. The purpose of this report is to provide you with information on your drinking water and how to protect our precious water resources.

Contact Steve Mattson, Water Wastewater Manager, at 218-326-7195 or srmattson@grpuc.org if you have questions about Grand Rapids’s drinking water. You can also ask for information about how you can take part in decisions that may affect water quality.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets safe drinking water standards. These standards limit the amounts of specific contaminants allowed in drinking water. This ensures that tap water is safe to drink for most people. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates the number of certain contaminants in bottled water. Bottled water must provide the same public health protection as public tap water.

Drinking water, including bottled water, may reasonably be expected to contain at least small amounts of some contaminants. The presence of contaminants does not necessarily indicate that water poses a health risk. More information about contaminants and potential health effects can be obtained by calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1‑800‑426‑4791.