Is ABERDEEN, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
ABERDEEN, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 12,473 people through 4,989 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
24 total violations and 15 health-based ones put ABERDEEN, TOWN OF at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,255 of 12,903.
How ABERDEEN, TOWN OF compares within NC
ABERDEEN, TOWN OF's 15 health-based violations sit above the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for ABERDEEN, TOWN OF is from 2020-01-01 (health-based: 2012-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ABERDEEN, TOWN OF's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
ABERDEEN, TOWN OF's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 24 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.