What's in CITY OF ABILENE's water?
CITY OF ABILENE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 130,501 people through 61,139 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, CITY OF ABILENE ranks 7,848th by violation burden (39th percentile) - 19 violations total, 1 health-based.
How CITY OF ABILENE compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF ABILENE's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF ABILENE is from 2021-01-02 (health-based: 2021-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF ABILENE'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: Interim Enhanced 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
CITY OF ABILENE'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for CITY OF ABILENE - 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.