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NORWICH CITY: EPA violation history, explained

NORWICH CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 8,000 people through 2,560 service connections.

NORWICH CITY's record against the rest of the country

NORWICH CITY has 37 violations on record in total, 24 of thems health-based - ranking it 747th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.

Against the NY average

NORWICH CITY's 24 health-based violations sit above the NY average of 4.1, across 443 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

NORWICH CITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2012-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.

The concern categories on record

NORWICH CITY'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 NORWICH CITY's record does not cover

Everything on this page is NORWICH CITY'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 NORWICH CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 747th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.