Is CITY OF MILPITAS's water safe to drink?
CITY OF MILPITAS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 81,773 people through 15,928 service connections.
CITY OF MILPITAS's record against the rest of the country
6 total violations and 2 health-based ones put CITY OF MILPITAS at the 48th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,751 of 12,903.
Against the CA average
CITY OF MILPITAS's 2 health-based violations sit within the CA average of 5.8, across 803 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
CITY OF MILPITAS's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-05, with the most recent health-based one dated 1995-01-03. Last reported to EPA: 06/22/2026.
The concern categories on record
CITY OF MILPITAS'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 CITY OF MILPITAS's record does not cover
Everything on this page is CITY OF MILPITAS'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 CITY OF MILPITAS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,751th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.