Is WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS)'s water safe to drink?
WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS) has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 72,205, over 20,630 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
23 total violations and 1 health-based ones put WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS) at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,759 of 12,903.
How WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS) compares within FL
FL's 482 covered systems average 4.5 health-based violations each; WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS) carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS) is from 2017-01-09 (health-based: 1990-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS)'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:
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Chromium
The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
WINTER GARDEN WATER DEPT (3 WPS)'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 23 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.