Is BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 15,621 people through 6,715 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,973th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
Against the AR average
AR's 243 covered systems average 7.1 health-based violations each; BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES's most recent violation on record is dated 1993-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 1993-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 05/12/2026.
The concern categories on record
BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES'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 BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES's record does not cover
BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for BATESVILLE WATER UTILITIES - 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.