What's in CITY OF BAY CITY's water?
CITY OF BAY CITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 18,061 people through 9,481 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF BAY CITY has 27 violations on record in total, 13 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,468th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 89th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF BAY CITY compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF BAY CITY's 13 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 CITY OF BAY CITY is from 2026-11-08 (health-based: 2026-11-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF BAY CITY'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); Revised Total Coliform Rule
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Arsenic
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 CITY OF BAY CITY 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 CITY OF BAY CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,468th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.