Is ELLENBORO TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
ELLENBORO TOWN OF has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 2,322 people get their water from it, across 914 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, ELLENBORO TOWN OF ranks 7,532th by violation burden (42th percentile) - 40 violations total, 1 health-based.
How ELLENBORO TOWN OF compares within NC
ELLENBORO TOWN OF's 1 health-based violations sit within the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. 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 ELLENBORO TOWN OF is from 2026-11-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ELLENBORO 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is ELLENBORO TOWN OF'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 ELLENBORO TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,532th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.