DrinkingWaterCheck

Is SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's water safe to drink?

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,008, over 67 connections.

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's record against the rest of the country

45 total violations and 3 health-based ones put SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION at the 63th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,822 of 12,903.

Against the FL average

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's 3 health-based violations sit within the FL average of 4.5, across 482 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1987-01-12. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

The concern categories on record

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION'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 other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's record does not cover

SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION'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 SUMTER CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,822th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.