Is NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY's water safe to drink?
NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 27,899, over 9,662 connections.
How this compares nationally
274 total violations and 14 health-based ones put NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,287 of 12,903.
How NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY compares within
Among the 244 systems in this dataset, the average is 11.2 health-based violations - NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY's 14 is above that. 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 NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY is from 2017-01-01 (health-based: 2000-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NEW BERLIN 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:
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Combined Radium (-226 and -228); Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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 NEW BERLIN WATER UTILITY 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 274 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.