ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY: EPA violation history, explained
ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,200 people get their water from it, across 4,659 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY has 89 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,271th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.
How ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY's 1 is at or below that. 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 ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY is from 2026-01-03 (health-based: 1992-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 ASHLAND AREA WATER AUTHORITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 89 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.