Is DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,080 people get their water from it, across 800 connections.
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT's record against the rest of the country
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT has 10 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,263th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 36th percentile nationally.
Against the NY average
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT's 1 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT's most recent violation on record is dated 2002-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2001-01-04. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
The concern categories on record
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT'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: Coliform (TCR)
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 DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT's record does not cover
DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT'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 DEPOSIT (V) WATER DEPARTMENT - 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.