ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained

ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 17,460, over 5,430 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT has 6 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,476th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 58th percentile nationally.

Against the MA average

Among the 283 MA systems in this dataset, the average is 7.0 health-based violations - ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 1997-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1997-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.

The concern categories on record

ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT'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 ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover

Everything on this page is ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT'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 ORLEANS WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,476th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.