What's in OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT's water?
OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 8,755 people get their water from it, across 3,794 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
79 total violations and 7 health-based ones put OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT at the 80th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,575 of 12,903.
How OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT compares within WA
WA's 322 covered systems average 3.7 health-based violations each; OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT carries 7, 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 OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2023-01-10 (health-based: 2004-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
OTHELLO 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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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
OTHELLO WATER DEPARTMENT'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 79 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.