Is CITY OF ITTA BENA's water safe to drink?
CITY OF ITTA BENA has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,049 people through 1,005 service connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF ITTA BENA has 156 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,716th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 56th percentile nationally.
Against the MS average
MS's 349 covered systems average 3.2 health-based violations each; CITY OF ITTA BENA carries 2, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF ITTA BENA's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2020-09-11. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF ITTA BENA'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); Groundwater 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 CITY OF ITTA BENA's record does not cover
CITY OF ITTA BENA'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 - 2 health-based violations on file for CITY OF ITTA BENA - 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.