Is AMERICAN FORK CITY's water safe to drink?
AMERICAN FORK CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 39,045 people get their water from it, across 11,923 connections.
AMERICAN FORK CITY's record against the rest of the country
AMERICAN FORK CITY has 35 violations on record in total, 7 of thems health-based - ranking it 2,657th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 79th percentile nationally.
How AMERICAN FORK CITY compares within UT
AMERICAN FORK CITY's 7 health-based violations sit above the UT average of 2.8, across 145 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for AMERICAN FORK CITY is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2015-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
AMERICAN FORK CITY'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 this data is and is not
Everything on this page is AMERICAN FORK CITY's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and AMERICAN FORK CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,657th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.