What's in LAKE WALES, CITY OF's water?
LAKE WALES, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 18,722 people get their water from it, across 7,818 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
LAKE WALES, CITY OF has 13 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,171th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 60th percentile nationally.
How LAKE WALES, CITY OF compares within FL
Among the 482 FL systems in this dataset, the average is 4.5 health-based violations - LAKE WALES, CITY OF's 3 is at or below that. 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 LAKE WALES, CITY OF is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 1999-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LAKE WALES, CITY OF'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
LAKE WALES, CITY OF'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 LAKE WALES, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,171th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.