BetaBetaDataset
To provide public access to drinking water data maintained by state, territorial, and tribal primacy agencies responsible for implementing and enforcing drinking water regulations under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
The EPA delegates primary enforcement responsibilities of public water systems to states, territories, and Indian Tribes, also known as primacy agencies, if they meet certain requirements. Otherwise, the EPA will administer primary enforcement responsibilities.
Public water system inventories, violation records, monitoring sample information, compliance data, inspections, contaminant monitoring results, and drinking water quality records.
The data are collected through routine drinking water monitoring, sampling, compliance reporting, sanitary surveys, and regulatory oversight activities conducted by public water systems and primacy agencies under Safe Drinking Water Act requirements. Public water systems submit monitoring and compliance data to primacy agencies, which manage and report portions of the data to EPA.