Is CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,170 people get their water from it, across 1,390 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
34 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT at the 41th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,607 of 12,903.
Against the AL average
AL's 364 covered systems average 2.1 health-based violations each; CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1997-01-05. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
CAMDEN WATER & SEWER 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 CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is CAMDEN WATER & SEWER 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 CAMDEN WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,607th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.