What's in NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON's water?
NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 3,984 people through 1,626 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON has 88 violations on record in total, 13 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,421th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
How NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON compares within NC
NC's 360 covered systems average 5.7 health-based violations each; NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON carries 13, more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
NORTHAMPTON--LAKE GASTON'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 88 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.