Is WEST RICHLAND CITY OF's water safe to drink?
WEST RICHLAND CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 21,231, over 7,188 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
WEST RICHLAND CITY OF has 26 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,709th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 40th percentile nationally.
Against the WA average
Among the 322 WA systems in this dataset, the average is 3.7 health-based violations - WEST RICHLAND CITY OF's 1 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
WEST RICHLAND CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 1996-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/19/2026.
The concern categories on record
WEST RICHLAND CITY OF'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 WEST RICHLAND CITY OF's record does not cover
WEST RICHLAND CITY OF'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for WEST RICHLAND CITY OF - 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.