Is ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 9,223, over 3,580 connections.
ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM's record against the rest of the country
ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM has 127 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,689th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 87th percentile nationally.
How ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM's 11 is above that. 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 ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM is from 2026-02-03 (health-based: 2026-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM'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)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for ORANGE-ALAMANCE WATER SYSTEM - 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.