Is LEXINGTON, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
LEXINGTON, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 19,632 people get their water from it, across 11,000 connections.
How this compares nationally
LEXINGTON, CITY OF has 21 violations on record in total, 12 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,628th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 87th percentile nationally.
Against the NC average
LEXINGTON, CITY OF's 12 health-based violations sit above 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
LEXINGTON, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-08-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2019-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
LEXINGTON, CITY 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:
- 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 LEXINGTON, CITY OF's record does not cover
LEXINGTON, CITY 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 - 12 health-based violations on file for LEXINGTON, CITY 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.