Is CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,300 people through 850 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS has 29 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,936th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 62th percentile nationally.
How CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS compares within NY
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS's 3 is at or below that. 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 CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 1997-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
This is what CANAJOHARIE (V) WATER WORKS reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 29 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.