Is BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN's water safe to drink?
BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,408 people get their water from it, across 5,763 connections.
BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN's record against the rest of the country
BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN has 57 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,399th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN'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 BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN is from 2018-01-07 (health-based: 2003-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN'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
BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN'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 BLADEN CO WTR DIST-WEST BLADEN's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,399th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.