Orange-Alamance Water System, NC Water Quality
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 them 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.