Is LOUISBURG, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
LOUISBURG, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,554 people get their water from it, across 1,792 connections.
LOUISBURG, TOWN OF's record against the rest of the country
LOUISBURG, TOWN OF has 38 violations on record in total, 9 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,125th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 84th percentile nationally.
How LOUISBURG, TOWN OF compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - LOUISBURG, TOWN OF's 9 is above 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 LOUISBURG, TOWN OF is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2009-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LOUISBURG, 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is LOUISBURG, TOWN OF's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and LOUISBURG, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,125th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.