DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in HINESBURG WATER DEPT's water?

HINESBURG WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,800 people through 905 service connections.

How this compares nationally

HINESBURG WATER DEPT has 55 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,413th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.

Against the VT average

HINESBURG WATER DEPT's 1 health-based violations sit within the VT average of 5.2, across 51 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

HINESBURG WATER DEPT's most recent violation on record is dated 2020-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

The concern categories on record

HINESBURG 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:

The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What HINESBURG WATER DEPT's record does not cover

HINESBURG WATER DEPT'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 HINESBURG WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,413th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.