What's in CITY OF SARDIS's water?
CITY OF SARDIS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 3,439, over 1,288 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CITY OF SARDIS has 172 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,160th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 45th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF SARDIS compares within MS
MS's 349 covered systems average 3.2 health-based violations each; CITY OF SARDIS carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF SARDIS is from 2020-01-11 (health-based: 2004-04-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF SARDIS'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 SARDIS'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 172 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.