Is BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
BLACKSBURG, 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 34,578 people through 10,228 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF ranks 8,813th by violation burden (32th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.
How BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF compares within VA
Among the 186 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.2 health-based violations - BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2003-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BLACKSBURG, 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
BLACKSBURG, 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. Between the utility's meter and BLACKSBURG, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,813th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.