Is POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION's water safe to drink?

POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,413 people get their water from it, across 932 connections.

POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION's record against the rest of the country

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION ranks 7,177th by violation burden (44th percentile) - 153 violations total, 1 health-based.

How POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION compares within MS

Among the 349 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.2 health-based violations - POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2012-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION'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

POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION'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 POWERS WATER ASSOCIATION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,177th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.