Is ELMIRA WATER BOARD's water safe to drink?
ELMIRA WATER BOARD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 54,000, over 17,468 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
ELMIRA WATER BOARD has 27 violations on record in total, 5 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,529th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 73th percentile nationally.
How ELMIRA WATER BOARD compares within NY
ELMIRA WATER BOARD's 5 health-based violations sit above the NY average of 4.1, across 443 systems statewide. 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 ELMIRA WATER BOARD is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 1995-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ELMIRA WATER BOARD'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Trichloroethylene
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
Everything on this page is ELMIRA WATER BOARD's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and ELMIRA WATER BOARD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,529th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.