Is CITY OF RICHMOND's water safe to drink?
CITY OF RICHMOND has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 25,326, over 13,127 connections.
How this compares nationally
CITY OF RICHMOND has 11 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,474th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 50th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF RICHMOND compares within TX
CITY OF RICHMOND's 2 health-based violations sit within the TX average of 6.7, across 1,633 systems statewide. 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 RICHMOND is from 2024-01-12 (health-based: 1993-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF RICHMOND'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 RICHMOND'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. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF RICHMOND's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,474th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.