DEFOREST WATERWORKS: EPA violation history, explained
DEFOREST WATERWORKS had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 10,500 people through 3,888 service connections.
DEFOREST WATERWORKS's record against the rest of the country
DEFOREST WATERWORKS has 7 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,502th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 65th percentile nationally.
How DEFOREST WATERWORKS compares within
Among the 244 systems in this dataset, the average is 11.2 health-based violations - DEFOREST WATERWORKS's 4 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 DEFOREST WATERWORKS is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
DEFOREST WATERWORKS'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is DEFOREST WATERWORKS'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 DEFOREST WATERWORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,502th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.