ORANGE WATER DEPT: EPA violation history, explained

ORANGE WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 6,526 people through 1,886 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

ORANGE WATER DEPT has 6 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,839th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 70th percentile nationally.

How ORANGE WATER DEPT compares within MA

ORANGE WATER DEPT's 5 health-based violations sit within the MA average of 7.0, across 283 systems statewide. 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 ORANGE WATER DEPT is from 2015-01-10 (health-based: 2015-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ORANGE 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:

• 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

ORANGE 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 ORANGE WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,839th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.