Is ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 55,891, over 22,312 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
58 total violations and 8 health-based ones put ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF at the 82th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,340 of 12,903.
Against the NC average
ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF's 8 health-based violations sit above the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2019-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
ROCKY MOUNT, CITY 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: Coliform (TCR); Surface Water Treatment Rule
- 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 ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF's record does not cover
ROCKY MOUNT, CITY OF'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 58 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.