Is WARRENTON, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
WARRENTON, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 11,801 people through 4,939 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
17 total violations and 3 health-based ones put WARRENTON, TOWN OF at the 61th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,080 of 12,903.
How WARRENTON, TOWN OF compares within VA
Among the 186 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.2 health-based violations - WARRENTON, TOWN OF's 3 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for WARRENTON, TOWN OF is from 2014-01-04 (health-based: 1997-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WARRENTON, 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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 WARRENTON, TOWN OF'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 WARRENTON, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,080th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.