Is COMBINED UTILITIES's water safe to drink?
COMBINED UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 6,658, over 2,522 connections.
How this compares nationally
COMBINED UTILITIES has 215 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,686th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 56th percentile nationally.
How COMBINED UTILITIES compares within MS
Among the 349 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.2 health-based violations - COMBINED UTILITIES's 2 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 COMBINED UTILITIES is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2006-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
COMBINED UTILITIES'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 COMBINED UTILITIES 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. Between the utility's meter and COMBINED UTILITIES's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,686th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.