Hancock County Water & Sewer, MS Water Quality
Is Hancock County Water & Sewer's water safe to drink?
Hancock County Water & Sewer has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,254 people through 1,528 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, Hancock County Water & Sewer ranks 1,053th by violation burden (92th percentile) - 98 violations total, 17 health-based.
Against the MS average
Hancock County Water & Sewer's 17 health-based violations sit above the MS average of 3.1, across 361 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
Hancock County Water & Sewer's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-11, with the most recent health-based one dated 2019-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
Hancock County Water & Sewer'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Tthm; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
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 Hancock County Water & Sewer's record does not cover
Hancock County Water & Sewer'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. This record - 17 health-based violations on file for Hancock County Water & Sewer - 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.