Is DCPSA - BIG CANEY's water safe to drink?
DCPSA - BIG CANEY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 3,660 people get their water from it, across 1,442 connections.
DCPSA - BIG CANEY's record against the rest of the country
DCPSA - BIG CANEY has 1 violation on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,215th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How DCPSA - BIG CANEY compares within VA
DCPSA - BIG CANEY's 1 health-based violations sit within the VA average of 4.2, across 186 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for DCPSA - BIG CANEY is from 2023-01-04 (health-based: 2023-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DCPSA - BIG CANEY'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: 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
Everything on this page is DCPSA - BIG CANEY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and DCPSA - BIG CANEY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,215th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.