Is GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 12,500 people get their water from it, across 4,595 connections.
How this compares nationally
GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM has 215 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 5,685th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 56th percentile nationally.
Against the ID average
Among the 88 ID systems in this dataset, the average is 10.3 health-based violations - GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM's 2 is at or below that. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-11-12, with the most recent health-based one dated 1992-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
The concern categories on record
GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM'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 GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM's record does not cover
This is what GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM 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 GARDEN CITY WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,685th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.