What's in RIPLEY CITY OF's water?
RIPLEY CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,420 people get their water from it, across 2,492 connections.
RIPLEY CITY OF's record against the rest of the country
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, RIPLEY CITY OF ranks 2,300th by violation burden (82th percentile) - 132 violations total, 8 health-baseds.
How RIPLEY CITY OF compares within WV
RIPLEY CITY OF's 8 health-based violations sit above the WV average of 6.4, across 135 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for RIPLEY CITY OF is from 2026-03-11 (health-based: 2020-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
RIPLEY 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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM; Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what RIPLEY CITY OF 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 RIPLEY CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,300th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.