Is LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 105,178 people through 34,858 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT has 34 violations on record in total, 8 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,377th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 82th percentile nationally.
Against the WA average
LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT's 8 health-based violations sit above the WA average of 3.7, across 322 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2004-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT'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 LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
This is what LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT 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. This record - 8 health-based violations on file for LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.