Is DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM 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 3,518 people through 366 service connections.
DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's record against the rest of the country
DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM has 8 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,398th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 35th percentile nationally.
Against the FL average
FL's 482 covered systems average 4.5 health-based violations each; DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2023-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM'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 DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
This is what DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for DESOTO COUNTY WATER SYSTEM - 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.