Is NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC's water safe to drink?
NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,555 people get their water from it, across 1,006 connections.
NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC's record against the rest of the country
NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC has 19 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,051th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.
How NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC compares within NC
NC's 360 covered systems average 5.7 health-based violations each; NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC is from 2022-11-08 (health-based: 2012-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC'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)
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
NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC'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 NORTHWEST ONSLOW WATER ASSOC's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,051th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.