Is NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN's water safe to drink?
NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,226 people through 856 service connections.
How this compares nationally
NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN has 215 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,123th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 45th percentile nationally.
How NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN compares within MS
MS's 349 covered systems average 3.2 health-based violations each; NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN carries 1, 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 NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN is from 2012-01-10 (health-based: 2011-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN'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
This is what NEW PROVIDENCE WATER ASSN 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 215 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.