Is ELON, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
ELON, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 11,350, over 2,777 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
129 total violations and 4 health-based ones put ELON, TOWN OF at the 70th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,926 of 12,903.
How ELON, TOWN OF compares within NC
ELON, TOWN OF's 4 health-based violations sit within the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for ELON, TOWN OF is from 2024-07-04 (health-based: 2009-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ELON, 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
ELON, TOWN OF'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. This record - 4 health-based violations on file for ELON, TOWN OF - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.