FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF: EPA violation history, explained
FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 185,163, over 63,527 connections.
FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country
112 total violations and 3 health-based ones put FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF at the 64th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,697 of 12,903.
Against the FL average
FL's 482 covered systems average 4.5 health-based violations each; FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF carries 3, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF'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 FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF's record does not cover
FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF'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 FORT LAUDERDALE, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,697th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.