Is FRANKLIN, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
FRANKLIN, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 9,000 people through 3,500 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
53 total violations and 24 health-based ones put FRANKLIN, CITY OF at the 94th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 736 of 12,903.
How FRANKLIN, CITY OF compares within VA
Among the 186 VA systems in this dataset, the average is 4.2 health-based violations - FRANKLIN, CITY OF's 24 is above that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for FRANKLIN, CITY OF is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 2005-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/19/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
FRANKLIN, CITY OF'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)
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Fluoride
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
FRANKLIN, CITY OF'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. Between the utility's meter and FRANKLIN, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 736th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.