Is HAW RIVER, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
HAW RIVER, 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: 2,650, over 1,000 connections.
HAW RIVER, TOWN OF's record against the rest of the country
36 total violations and 12 health-based ones put HAW RIVER, TOWN OF at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,590 of 12,903.
Against the NC average
NC's 360 covered systems average 5.7 health-based violations each; HAW RIVER, TOWN OF carries 12, more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
HAW RIVER, TOWN OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2012-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
HAW RIVER, 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; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What HAW RIVER, TOWN OF's record does not cover
HAW RIVER, 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. Between the utility's meter and HAW RIVER, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,590th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.