What's in EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT's water?

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,718 people through 3,708 service connections.

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT has 153 violations on record in total, 10 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,874th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 85th percentile nationally.

How EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT compares within WA

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT's 10 health-based violations sit above the WA average of 3.7, across 322 systems statewide. 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 EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 2004-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT'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

EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT'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. Between the utility's meter and EPHRATA WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,874th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.