DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in ROME WATER UTILITY's water?

ROME WATER UTILITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,775 people through 1,150 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, ROME WATER UTILITY ranks 8,905th by violation burden (31th percentile) - 4 violations total, 1 health-based.

How ROME WATER UTILITY compares within

Among the 244 systems in this dataset, the average is 11.2 health-based violations - ROME WATER UTILITY's 1 is at or below that. 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 ROME WATER UTILITY is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2005-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/29/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ROME WATER UTILITY'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:

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 ROME WATER UTILITY 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for ROME WATER UTILITY - 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.