Is CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH's water safe to drink?
CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,000 people get their water from it, across 5,995 connections.
CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH's record against the rest of the country
CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH has 51 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,801th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 63th percentile nationally.
How CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH compares within PA
PA's 475 covered systems average 5.5 health-based violations each; CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH carries 3, not more than typical for the state. 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 CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH is from 2024-01-08 (health-based: 2019-05-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH'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: Revised Total Coliform Rule; 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 CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH 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 CLEARFIELD MUNICIPAL AUTH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,801th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.