What's in ALTOONA WATERWORKS's water?
ALTOONA WATERWORKS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 9,627 people get their water from it, across 3,242 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
83 total violations and 12 health-based ones put ALTOONA WATERWORKS at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,553 of 12,903.
How ALTOONA WATERWORKS compares within WI
WI's 202 covered systems average 3.6 health-based violations each; ALTOONA WATERWORKS carries 12, 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 ALTOONA WATERWORKS is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ALTOONA WATERWORKS'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is ALTOONA WATERWORKS'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 ALTOONA WATERWORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,553th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.