What's in WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT's water?
WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 6,718 people get their water from it, across 2,132 connections.
WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT's record against the rest of the country
WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT has 79 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,300th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
How WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT compares within CT
Among the 73 CT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.6 health-based violations - WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT's 1 is at or below that. 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 WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT is from 2024-10-08 (health-based: 2008-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT'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 WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT 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 WATERTOWN FIRE DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,300th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.