Raymond Water Department: EPA violation history, explained
Raymond Water Department has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 4,620 people get their water from it, across 1,289 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Raymond Water Department has 18 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,067th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.
Against the WA average
Among the 322 WA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.7 health-based violations - Raymond Water Department's 3 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
Raymond Water Department's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-02. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
Raymond 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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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 Raymond Water Department's record does not cover
Raymond 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. Between the utility's meter and Raymond Water Department's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,067th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.