WELLESLEY COLLEGE: EPA violation history, explained
WELLESLEY COLLEGE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 3,000 people through 62 service connections.
WELLESLEY COLLEGE's record against the rest of the country
WELLESLEY COLLEGE has 19 violations on record in total, 13 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,507th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 88th percentile nationally.
How WELLESLEY COLLEGE compares within MA
WELLESLEY COLLEGE's 13 health-based violations sit above 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
The last violation EPA has on record for WELLESLEY COLLEGE is from 2023-01-07 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WELLESLEY COLLEGE'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); Revised Total Coliform Rule
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
WELLESLEY COLLEGE's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. This record - 13 health-based violations on file for WELLESLEY COLLEGE - 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.