Is CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER's water safe to drink?
CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 59,395 people get their water from it, across 23,384 connections.
How this compares nationally
CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER has 65 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,359th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER is from 2020-01-09 (health-based: 2003-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER'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 CLEVELAND COUNTY WATER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,359th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.