BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained
BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 14,000 people through 4,150 service connections.
How this compares nationally
BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM has 6 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,480th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 58th percentile nationally.
How BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM compares within VT
BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM's 3 health-based violations sit within the VT average of 5.2, across 51 systems statewide. 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 BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM is from 2010-01-07 (health-based: 2010-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM'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); 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 BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for BARRE CITY WATER SYSTEM - 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.