Halifax Co--Halifax, NC Water Quality
Is Halifax Co--Halifax's water safe to drink?
Halifax Co--Halifax has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 20,250 people get their water from it, across 8,782 connections.
How this compares nationally
Halifax Co--Halifax has 59 violations on record in total, 17 of them health-based - ranking it 1,065th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 92th percentile nationally.
Against the NC average
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - Halifax Co--Halifax's 17 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
Halifax Co--Halifax's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2017-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
Halifax Co--Halifax'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 Halifax Co--Halifax's record does not cover
This is what Halifax Co--Halifax 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. Between the utility's meter and Halifax Co--Halifax's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,065th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.