Is BETHPAGE WD's water safe to drink?
BETHPAGE WD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 33,000 people get their water from it, across 8,434 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BETHPAGE WD has 1 violation on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,185th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 29th percentile nationally.
How BETHPAGE WD compares within
's 244 covered systems average 11.2 health-based violations each; BETHPAGE WD carries 1, not more than typical for the state. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for BETHPAGE WD is from 2007-01-09 (health-based: 2007-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
BETHPAGE WD'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:
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is BETHPAGE WD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 1 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.