Is TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's water safe to drink?
TAUNTON WATER DIVISION has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 62,165 people through 16,803 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
TAUNTON WATER DIVISION has 67 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,355th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
Against the MA average
TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's 1 health-based violations sit within the MA average of 7.0, across 283 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
TAUNTON WATER DIVISION'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)
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 TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's record does not cover
Everything on this page is TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and TAUNTON WATER DIVISION's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,355th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.