CITY OF PRINCETON: EPA violation history, explained
CITY OF PRINCETON has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 37,019 people through 15,569 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
21 total violations and 3 health-based ones put CITY OF PRINCETON at the 61th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,013 of 12,903.
How CITY OF PRINCETON compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF PRINCETON's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF PRINCETON is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2010-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF PRINCETON'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
This is what CITY OF PRINCETON 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 21 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.