GENOA CITY WATERWORKS: EPA violation history, explained
GENOA CITY WATERWORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,766, over 1,024 connections.
GENOA CITY WATERWORKS's record against the rest of the country
92 total violations and 15 health-based ones put GENOA CITY WATERWORKS at the 91th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,219 of 12,903.
How GENOA CITY WATERWORKS compares within
GENOA CITY WATERWORKS's 15 health-based violations sit above the average of 11.2, across 244 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 GENOA CITY WATERWORKS is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2018-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GENOA CITY 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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228)
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
This is what GENOA CITY WATERWORKS 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. Between the utility's meter and GENOA CITY WATERWORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,219th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.