Is WADESBORO, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
WADESBORO, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,608 people get their water from it, across 2,208 connections.
WADESBORO, TOWN OF's record against the rest of the country
WADESBORO, TOWN OF has 64 violations on record in total, 24 of thems health-based - ranking it 734th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.
How WADESBORO, TOWN OF compares within NC
WADESBORO, TOWN OF's 24 health-based violations sit above the NC average of 5.7, across 360 systems statewide. 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 WADESBORO, TOWN OF is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2009-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WADESBORO, TOWN 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
WADESBORO, TOWN 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. Between the utility's meter and WADESBORO, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 734th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.