Is BADEN BORO WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
BADEN BORO WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,948 people through 1,644 service connections.
BADEN BORO WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country
BADEN BORO WATER DEPT has 84 violations on record in total, 10 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,892th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 85th percentile nationally.
How BADEN BORO WATER DEPT compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - BADEN BORO WATER DEPT's 10 is above 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 BADEN BORO WATER DEPT is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2003-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BADEN BORO WATER DEPT'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
This is what BADEN BORO WATER DEPT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. This record - 10 health-based violations on file for BADEN BORO WATER DEPT - 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.