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MOSCOW WATER DEPT: EPA violation history, explained

MOSCOW WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 26,000, over 6,150 connections.

MOSCOW WATER DEPT's record against the rest of the country

29 total violations and 1 health-based ones put MOSCOW WATER DEPT at the 41th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,670 of 12,903.

Against the ID average

Among the 88 ID systems in this dataset, the average is 10.3 health-based violations - MOSCOW WATER DEPT's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

MOSCOW WATER DEPT's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

MOSCOW WATER DEPT'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 MOSCOW WATER DEPT's record does not cover

MOSCOW WATER DEPT'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 MOSCOW WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,670th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.