Is FRANKLIN SQUARE WD's water safe to drink?
FRANKLIN SQUARE WD has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 20,000 people through 5,190 service connections.
How this compares nationally
33 total violations and 5 health-based ones put FRANKLIN SQUARE WD at the 73th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 3,496 of 12,903.
How FRANKLIN SQUARE WD compares within NY
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - FRANKLIN SQUARE WD's 5 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for FRANKLIN SQUARE WD is from 2022-01-01 (health-based: 2015-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
FRANKLIN SQUARE WD'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 this data is and is not
This is what FRANKLIN SQUARE WD 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 FRANKLIN SQUARE WD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,496th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.