BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF: EPA violation history, explained
BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 141,127, over 28,187 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
17 total violations and 16 health-based ones put BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF at the 91th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,195 of 12,903.
Against the WA average
Among the 322 WA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.7 health-based violations - BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF's 16 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2010-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2010-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF'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 BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF's record does not cover
This is what BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF 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. Between the utility's meter and BELLINGHAM-WATER DIVISION CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,195th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.