DrinkingWaterCheck

CITY OF CLEVELAND: EPA violation history, explained

CITY OF CLEVELAND has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 16,392 people through 6,209 service connections.

How this compares nationally

CITY OF CLEVELAND has 105 violations on record in total, 11 of thems health-based - ranking it 1,696th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 87th percentile nationally.

How CITY OF CLEVELAND compares within MS

CITY OF CLEVELAND's 11 health-based violations sit above the MS average of 3.2, across 349 systems statewide. 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 CITY OF CLEVELAND is from 2023-01-06 (health-based: 2021-01-05). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

CITY OF CLEVELAND'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:

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 CITY OF CLEVELAND'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 105 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.