KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT: EPA violation history, explained
KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 40,475 people get their water from it, across 16,400 connections.
KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country
363 total violations and 1 health-based ones put KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT at the 45th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,085 of 12,903.
How KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT compares within OR
KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT's 1 health-based violations sit within the OR average of 6.0, across 160 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 KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT is from 2025-01-02 (health-based: 2004-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
KLAMATH FALLS 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:
- 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
Everything on this page is KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and KLAMATH FALLS WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,085th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.