LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY: EPA violation history, explained
LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 120,418 people through 26,043 service connections.
LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY ranks 3,467th by violation burden (73th percentile) - 41 violations total, 5 health-baseds.
How LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY compares within MA
Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY's 5 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 LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY is from 2023-01-06 (health-based: 2017-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY'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
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
Everything on this page is LOWELL REGIONAL WATER UTILITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 41 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.