Is ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT's water safe to drink?
ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 17,241 people get their water from it, across 7,496 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT has 12 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,203th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 60th percentile nationally.
Against the OH average
ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT's 3 health-based violations sit within the OH average of 5.5, across 394 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-02-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2007-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
The concern categories on record
ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT'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 ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT's record does not cover
This is what ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT 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 ERIE CO PERKINS DISTRICT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,203th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.