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JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES: EPA violation history, explained

JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 7,000, over 2,566 connections.

JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country

28 total violations and 5 health-based ones put JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES at the 73th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,524 of 12,903.

How JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES compares within OR

OR's 160 covered systems average 6.0 health-based violations each; JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES carries 5, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES is from 2022-01-10 (health-based: 2011-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES'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 this data is and is not

JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES'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 - 5 health-based violations on file for JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES - 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.