Is CITY OF STAMFORD's water safe to drink?
CITY OF STAMFORD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,101 people get their water from it, across 2,582 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
51 total violations and 11 health-based ones put CITY OF STAMFORD at the 87th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,730 of 12,903.
How CITY OF STAMFORD compares within TX
Among the 1,633 TX systems in this dataset, the average is 6.7 health-based violations - CITY OF STAMFORD's 11 is above 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 CITY OF STAMFORD is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 2015-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CITY OF STAMFORD'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
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); Interim Enhanced 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 this data is and is not
CITY OF STAMFORD'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. This record - 11 health-based violations on file for CITY OF STAMFORD - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.