Is TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,925, over 1,204 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
307 total violations and 1 health-based ones put TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS at the 45th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,092 of 12,903.
How TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS compares within MS
TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS's 1 health-based violations sit within the MS average of 3.2, across 349 systems statewide. 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 TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2004-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS'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 this data is and is not
This is what TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS 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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for TOWN OF BAY SPRINGS - 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.