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CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.: EPA violation history, explained

CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC. has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 15,096 people get their water from it, across 5,032 connections.

How this compares nationally

9 total violations and 3 health-based ones put CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC. at the 59th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,319 of 12,903.

Against the AL average

CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'s 3 health-based violations sit above the AL average of 2.1, across 364 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'s most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-11, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

The concern categories on record

CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'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 CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'s record does not cover

CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'s numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and CITIZENS WATER SERVICE, INC.'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,319th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.