Is FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT's water safe to drink?
FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 3,076 people get their water from it, across 900 connections.
How this compares nationally
FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT has 15 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,348th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 51th percentile nationally.
Against the VT average
Among the 51 VT systems in this dataset, the average is 5.2 health-based violations - FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT's most recent violation on record is dated 2021-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-11. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT'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 FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT's record does not cover
Everything on this page is FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT'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 FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,348th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.