Is WISE, TOWN OF's water safe to drink?
WISE, TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,375 people get their water from it, across 2,746 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
21 total violations and 5 health-based ones put WISE, TOWN OF at the 72th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,581 of 12,903.
How WISE, TOWN OF compares within VA
VA's 186 covered systems average 4.2 health-based violations each; WISE, TOWN OF carries 5, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for WISE, TOWN OF is from 2018-01-04 (health-based: 2018-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WISE, 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)
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 WISE, 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 WISE, TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,581th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.