Is MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,442, over 3,973 connections.
MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
14 total violations and 3 health-based ones put MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT at the 60th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,151 of 12,903.
How MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT compares within AR
AR's 243 covered systems average 7.1 health-based violations each; MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2019-01-01 (health-based: 2007-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/12/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MONTICELLO 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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and MONTICELLO WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,151th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.