Is TOWN OF ELIZABETH's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF ELIZABETH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,450 people get their water from it, across 1,476 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, TOWN OF ELIZABETH ranks 4,934th by violation burden (62th percentile) - 29 violations total, 3 health-baseds.
How TOWN OF ELIZABETH compares within IN
Among the 283 IN systems in this dataset, the average is 2.9 health-based violations - TOWN OF ELIZABETH's 3 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 TOWN OF ELIZABETH is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 1995-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWN OF ELIZABETH'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
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
This is what TOWN OF ELIZABETH reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and TOWN OF ELIZABETH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,934th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.