What's in BURLINGTON WATERWORKS's water?
BURLINGTON WATERWORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 11,043 people get their water from it, across 4,090 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
112 total violations and 11 health-based ones put BURLINGTON WATERWORKS at the 87th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,692 of 12,903.
How BURLINGTON WATERWORKS compares within WI
Among the 202 WI systems in this dataset, the average is 3.6 health-based violations - BURLINGTON WATERWORKS's 11 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BURLINGTON WATERWORKS is from 2022-01-07 (health-based: 2011-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BURLINGTON WATERWORKS'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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
Everything on this page is BURLINGTON WATERWORKS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for BURLINGTON WATERWORKS - 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.