Is EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 14,485 people through 5,794 service connections.
EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
39 total violations and 28 health-based ones put EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT at the 95th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 632 of 12,903.
How EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's 28 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2025-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT'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 EDGECOMBE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 632th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.