What's in GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT's water?
GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 16,510, over 4,616 connections.
How this compares nationally
GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT has 36 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,576th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 41th percentile nationally.
How GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT compares within WA
Among the 322 WA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.7 health-based violations - GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT's 1 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 GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT is from 2015-01-07 (health-based: 1993-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT'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
This is what GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT 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 GIG HARBOR WATER DEPT - 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.