Is BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,700 people through 1,800 service connections.
How this compares nationally
81 total violations and 43 health-based ones put BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY at the 97th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 341 of 12,903.
How BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY compares within FL
Among the 482 FL systems in this dataset, the average is 4.5 health-based violations - BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY's 43 is above that. 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 BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 2019-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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
BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY'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 - 43 health-based violations on file for BIG BEND WATER AUTHORITY - 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.