Caroline Utility System, VA Water Quality
Is Caroline Utility System's water safe to drink?
Caroline Utility System has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,235 people get their water from it, across 1,596 connections.
Caroline Utility System's record against the rest of the country
Caroline Utility System has 9 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,314th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 36th percentile nationally.
Against the VA average
VA's 213 covered systems average 4.3 health-based violations each; Caroline Utility System carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Caroline Utility System's most recent violation on record is dated 2019-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
Caroline Utility System'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 Caroline Utility System's record does not cover
Everything on this page is Caroline Utility System's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and Caroline Utility System's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,314th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.