Is HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST's water safe to drink?
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 145,204 people through 65,366 service connections.
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST's record against the rest of the country
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST has 23 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,169th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 68th percentile nationally.
How HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST compares within FL
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST's 4 health-based violations sit within the FL average of 4.5, across 482 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 HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST is from 2025-01-03 (health-based: 2004-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST'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
HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST'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 HERNANDO CO UTL-WEST's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,169th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.