ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION: EPA violation history, explained
ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 10,587 people through 3,370 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION has 6 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,488th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 57th percentile nationally.
How ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION compares within MA
MA's 283 covered systems average 7.0 health-based violations each; ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION carries 3, not 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 ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION is from 2016-01-07 (health-based: 2015-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION'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)
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
ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION'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. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for ATHOL DPW WATER DIVISION - 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.