BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 52,079 people through 16,322 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
119 total violations and 2 health-based ones put BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT at the 55th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,753 of 12,903.
Against the CT average
Among the 73 CT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.6 health-based violations - BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-10-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
The concern categories on record
BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT'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 BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,753th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.