RAY WATER COMPANY INC: EPA violation history, explained
RAY WATER COMPANY INC has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 4,495 people through 1,842 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
141 total violations and 2 health-based ones put RAY WATER COMPANY INC at the 56th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,732 of 12,903.
How RAY WATER COMPANY INC compares within AZ
AZ's 199 covered systems average 8.2 health-based violations each; RAY WATER COMPANY INC carries 2, not more than typical for the state. 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 RAY WATER COMPANY INC is from 2024-01-04 (health-based: 1999-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RAY WATER COMPANY INC'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)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
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
This is what RAY WATER COMPANY INC reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and RAY WATER COMPANY INC's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,732th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.