BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES: EPA violation history, explained

BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 51,250 people get their water from it, across 24,898 connections.

BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES ranks 8,526th by violation burden (34th percentile) - 6 violations total, 1 health-based.

How BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES compares within AR

AR's 243 covered systems average 7.1 health-based violations each; BENTONVILLE 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

The last violation EPA has on record for BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES is from 2008-01-08 (health-based: 2008-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/12/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

BENTONVILLE 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 this data is and is not

BENTONVILLE 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. Between the utility's meter and BENTONVILLE WATER UTILITIES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,526th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.