DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in BURLEY WATER DEPT's water?

BURLEY WATER DEPT had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 10,345, over 3,867 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

BURLEY WATER DEPT has 29 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,118th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 68th percentile nationally.

How BURLEY WATER DEPT compares within ID

ID's 88 covered systems average 10.3 health-based violations each; BURLEY WATER DEPT carries 4, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for BURLEY WATER DEPT is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2022-02-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

BURLEY WATER DEPT'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 this data is and is not

This is what BURLEY WATER DEPT 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 BURLEY WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,118th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.