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LEE COUNTY UTILITIES: EPA violation history, explained

LEE COUNTY UTILITIES has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 282,556 people get their water from it, across 95,339 connections.

LEE COUNTY UTILITIES's record against the rest of the country

7 total violations and 3 health-based ones put LEE COUNTY UTILITIES at the 58th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,415 of 12,903.

How LEE COUNTY UTILITIES compares within FL

FL's 482 covered systems average 4.5 health-based violations each; LEE COUNTY UTILITIES carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 LEE COUNTY UTILITIES is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2021-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

LEE COUNTY 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 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

This is what LEE COUNTY UTILITIES 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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 7 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.