SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT: EPA violation history, explained
SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 12,284 people get their water from it, across 5,014 connections.
SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT's record against the rest of the country
SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT has 65 violations on record in total, 54 of thems health-based - ranking it 248th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 98th percentile nationally.
How SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT compares within ID
Among the 88 ID systems in this dataset, the average is 10.3 health-based violations - SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT's 54 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT is from 2021-01-07 (health-based: 2021-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT'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: 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
SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 54 health-based violations on file for SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT - 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.