WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT: EPA violation history, explained

WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 35,298, over 14,800 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT has 71 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,402th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 74th percentile nationally.

Against the RI average

RI's 32 covered systems average 5.6 health-based violations each; WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT carries 5, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2012-01-05. Last reported to EPA: 05/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT'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 WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover

WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT'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 - 5 health-based violations on file for WESTERLY WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.