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GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION: EPA violation history, explained

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 37,440 people get their water from it, across 15,141 connections.

How this compares nationally

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION has 79 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,975th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 69th percentile nationally.

How GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION compares within MA

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION's 4 health-based violations sit within the MA average of 7.0, across 283 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 GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION is from 2013-01-07 (health-based: 2009-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION'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:

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

GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION'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 GLOUCESTER PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,975th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.