Is BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER's water safe to drink?
BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. It serves 10,300 people through 4,289 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER has 40 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,838th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 63th percentile nationally.
Against the OH average
Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER's 3 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-01-09, with the most recent health-based one dated 2025-05-10. Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER's record does not cover
BUCKEYE WATER DISTRICT - OHIO RIVER'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 40 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.