CLINTON WATER DEPT: EPA violation history, explained

CLINTON WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 12,500 people through 4,600 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

CLINTON WATER DEPT has 438 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,631th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 56th percentile nationally.

Against the NJ average

Among the 270 NJ systems in this dataset, the average is 5.3 health-based violations - CLINTON WATER DEPT's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

CLINTON WATER DEPT's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-11-08, with the most recent health-based one dated 2010-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

The concern categories on record

CLINTON WATER DEPT'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 CLINTON WATER DEPT's record does not cover

CLINTON WATER DEPT'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. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for CLINTON WATER DEPT - 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.