DrinkingWaterCheck

Is WILSON, CITY OF's water safe to drink?

WILSON, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 50,332, over 20,377 connections.

WILSON, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country

3 total violations and 2 health-based ones put WILSON, CITY OF at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,991 of 12,903.

Against the NC average

NC's 360 covered systems average 5.7 health-based violations each; WILSON, CITY OF carries 2, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

WILSON, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 1983-01-11, with the most recent health-based one dated 1983-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

WILSON, CITY 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:

The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What WILSON, CITY OF's record does not cover

WILSON, CITY 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 WILSON, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,991th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.