Is RICHLAND CITY OF's water safe to drink?
RICHLAND CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 106,499, over 32,906 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
41 total violations and 1 health-based ones put RICHLAND CITY OF at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,514 of 12,903.
Against the WA average
RICHLAND CITY OF's 1 health-based violations sit within the WA average of 3.7, across 322 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
RICHLAND CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2019-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 1993-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
RICHLAND CITY OF'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What RICHLAND CITY OF's record does not cover
Everything on this page is RICHLAND CITY OF's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for RICHLAND CITY OF - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.