What's in TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY's water?
TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 9,890 people through 3,326 service connections.
How this compares nationally
TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY has 90 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,266th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.
Against the MD average
MD's 93 covered systems average 3.3 health-based violations each; TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-03-04. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY's record does not cover
Everything on this page is TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and TOWN OF MOUNT AIRY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,266th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.