CITY OF HATTIESBURG: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF HATTIESBURG has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 43,449, over 16,458 connections.
CITY OF HATTIESBURG's record against the rest of the country
CITY OF HATTIESBURG has 215 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,645th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 64th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF HATTIESBURG compares within MS
Among the 349 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.2 health-based violations - CITY OF HATTIESBURG's 3 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 HATTIESBURG is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 2005-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF HATTIESBURG'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)
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 HATTIESBURG'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 - 3 health-based violations on file for CITY OF HATTIESBURG - 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.