UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND: EPA violation history, explained

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 19,354 people through 165 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

35 total violations and 5 health-based ones put UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND at the 73th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,487 of 12,903.

How UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND compares within RI

Among the 32 RI systems in this dataset, the average is 5.6 health-based violations - UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND's 5 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND is from 2019-01-01 (health-based: 2008-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 05/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND'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 UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND 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. Between the utility's meter and UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,487th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.