Is BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,046 people get their water from it, across 6,495 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT has 29 violations on record in total, 14 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,363th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
Against the WA average
BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's 14 health-based violations sit above the WA average of 3.7, across 322 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2014-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2003-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT'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 BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's record does not cover
This is what BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT 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 BIRCH BAY WATER & SEWER DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,363th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.