ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained
ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,218 people get their water from it, across 3,661 connections.
ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
32 total violations and 1 health-based ones put ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT at the 41th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,628 of 12,903.
Against the IN average
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-08. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
ROCHESTER 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: 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 ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and ROCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,628th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.