Is CITY OF RIDGELAND's water safe to drink?
CITY OF RIDGELAND has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 24,340 people through 13,610 service connections.
How this compares nationally
190 total violations and 14 health-based ones put CITY OF RIDGELAND at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,293 of 12,903.
How CITY OF RIDGELAND compares within MS
CITY OF RIDGELAND's 14 health-based violations sit above the MS average of 3.2, across 349 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 RIDGELAND is from 2022-06-01 (health-based: 2021-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF RIDGELAND'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CITY OF RIDGELAND 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. This record - 14 health-based violations on file for CITY OF RIDGELAND - 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.