Is SOUTHEAST POLK RWD's water safe to drink?
SOUTHEAST POLK RWD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 7,565 people through 3,026 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
18 total violations and 15 health-based ones put SOUTHEAST POLK RWD at the 90th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,275 of 12,903.
Against the IA average
Among the 203 IA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.5 health-based violations - SOUTHEAST POLK RWD's 15 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
SOUTHEAST POLK RWD's most recent violation on record is dated 2014-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
The concern categories on record
SOUTHEAST POLK RWD'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 SOUTHEAST POLK RWD's record does not cover
SOUTHEAST POLK RWD'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. Between the utility's meter and SOUTHEAST POLK RWD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,275th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.