CITY OF FORT WORTH: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF FORT WORTH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 955,900 people through 653,251 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF FORT WORTH has 13 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,028th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 38th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF FORT WORTH compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF FORT WORTH's 1 is at or below that. 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 CITY OF FORT WORTH is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2021-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF FORT WORTH'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: Long Term 2 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
Everything on this page is CITY OF FORT WORTH'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 CITY OF FORT WORTH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,028th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.