Is CITY OF PORTLAND's water safe to drink?
CITY OF PORTLAND had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 22,933 people get their water from it, across 9,869 connections.
CITY OF PORTLAND's record against the rest of the country
CITY OF PORTLAND has 6 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,764th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 48th percentile nationally.
How CITY OF PORTLAND compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF PORTLAND's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for CITY OF PORTLAND is from 2025-03-01 (health-based: 2022-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF PORTLAND'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
This is what CITY OF PORTLAND 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. Between the utility's meter and CITY OF PORTLAND's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,764th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.