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You fill a glass at the tap, take a sip, and pause. It tastes like a swimming pool, smells a little off, or leaves faint stains on your sink. If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Water quality across the Outer Banks presents real challenges, whether you’re connected to city lines in Dare County or drawing from a private well in Currituck County.
The good news is that a properly designed reverse osmosis (RO) system solves these problems at the source. And when that system is custom-built and installed by a local team who knows coastal water chemistry, you get results that a big-box filter simply can’t match.

Both Dare County city water and Currituck County well water suffer from significant quality issues. Dare County tap water often contains high chlorine and corrosive contaminants, while Currituck County well water frequently harbors iron and hydrogen sulfide. Island Water Treatment provides free water testing to identify and fix these local water problems.

Does your well water smell like rotten eggs or sulfur? Discover the most common causes of smelly well water in the Outer Banks and Currituck County, what each odor means, and how to fix it.