Is WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP's water safe to drink?
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 7,800 people get their water from it, across 80 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP ranks 5,955th by violation burden (54th percentile) - 44 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP compares within NC
Among the 360 NC systems in this dataset, the average is 5.7 health-based violations - WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP's 2 is at or below 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 WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP is from 2023-11-10 (health-based: 2014-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP'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: 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
Everything on this page is WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for WESTERN CAROLINA UNIV WTP - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.