LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION: EPA violation history, explained
LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,500, over 2,515 connections.
LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION's record against the rest of the country
LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION has 18 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,064th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.
How LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION compares within MD
Among the 93 MD systems in this dataset, the average is 3.3 health-based violations - LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION's 3 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 LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION is from 2019-01-10 (health-based: 2006-06-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION'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 LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,064th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.