Is TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 8,037, over 2,679 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM ranks 4,295th by violation burden (67th percentile) - 14 violations total, 4 health-baseds.
How TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM compares within LA
LA's 347 covered systems average 12.6 health-based violations each; TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM carries 4, not more than typical for the state. 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 BENTON WATER SYSTEM is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 2013-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/23/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM'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
Everything on this page is TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM'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 TOWN OF BENTON WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,295th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.