FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE: EPA violation history, explained

FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,873 people through 1,785 service connections.

FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE's record against the rest of the country

31 total violations and 4 health-based ones put FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE at the 68th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,104 of 12,903.

How FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE compares within NC

Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE's 4 is at or below that. 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 FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2020-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE'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:

• Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Uranium

The most severe category on record is radionuclides, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

This is what FAIRFIELD SAPPHIRE reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 31 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.