CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM: EPA violation history, explained
CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 1,308,955, over 453,705 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
49 total violations and 1 health-based ones put CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,442 of 12,903.
Against the OH average
Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2009-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM'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
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM'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 - 1 health-based violation on file for CLEVELAND PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM - 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.