Is HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
HALIFAX 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 7,575 people through 2,875 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
72 total violations and 1 health-based ones put HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT at the 43th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,334 of 12,903.
How HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT compares within MA
HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 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 HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2013-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HALIFAX 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
Everything on this page is HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for HALIFAX WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.