Is CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS's water safe to drink?
CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 26,168 people through 9,912 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
380 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS at the 45th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,082 of 12,903.
Against the MS average
Among the 349 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.2 health-based violations - CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 2004-04-05. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS'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 CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS's record does not cover
This is what CITY OF OCEAN SPRINGS 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 OCEAN SPRINGS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,082th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.