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BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES: EPA violation history, explained

BEREA MUNICIPAL 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 9,972 people through 4,198 service connections.

How this compares nationally

BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES has 60 violations on record in total, 21 of thems health-based - ranking it 845th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 93th percentile nationally.

Against the KY average

Among the 273 KY systems in this dataset, the average is 9.4 health-based violations - BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES's 21 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2007-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/18/2026.

The concern categories on record

BEREA MUNICIPAL 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:

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 BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES's record does not cover

BEREA MUNICIPAL 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 - 21 health-based violations on file for BEREA MUNICIPAL 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.