Centralia Public Works - Water, WA Water Quality
Is Centralia Public Works - Water's water safe to drink?
Centralia Public Works - Water has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 28,164 people through 8,607 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Centralia Public Works - Water ranks 8,207th by violation burden (36th percentile) - 10 violations total, 1 health-based.
How Centralia Public Works - Water compares within WA
Centralia Public Works - Water's 1 health-based violations sit within the WA average of 3.7, across 322 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Centralia Public Works - Water is from 2022-01-01 (health-based: 1992-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Centralia Public Works - Water'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 Centralia Public Works - Water 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 Centralia Public Works - Water's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,207th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.