What's in SALEM PUBLIC WORKS's water?
SALEM PUBLIC WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 199,820 people through 55,970 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, SALEM PUBLIC WORKS ranks 6,318th by violation burden (51th percentile) - 15 violations total, 2 health-baseds.
How SALEM PUBLIC WORKS compares within OR
OR's 160 covered systems average 6.0 health-based violations each; SALEM PUBLIC WORKS carries 2, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SALEM PUBLIC WORKS is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2006-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SALEM PUBLIC WORKS'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); 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 this data is and is not
This is what SALEM PUBLIC WORKS 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 SALEM PUBLIC WORKS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,318th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.