What's in BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT's water?
BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,400, over 1,998 connections.
How this compares nationally
BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT has 17 violations on record in total, 13 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,514th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 88th percentile nationally.
How BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT compares within MA
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT's 13 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 BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT is from 2011-01-08 (health-based: 2011-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT'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
BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT'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. Between the utility's meter and BARNSTABLE FIRE DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,514th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.