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JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS: EPA violation history, explained

JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 11,294, over 4,255 connections.

How this compares nationally

39 total violations and 1 health-based ones put JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,535 of 12,903.

How JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS compares within OH

Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS is from 2021-02-12 (health-based: 2006-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS'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

This is what JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and JEFFERSON WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,535th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.