Is GERMANTOWN CITY PWS's water safe to drink?
GERMANTOWN CITY PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,547 people get their water from it, across 2,357 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
92 total violations and 21 health-based ones put GERMANTOWN CITY PWS at the 94th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 838 of 12,903.
How GERMANTOWN CITY PWS compares within OH
Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - GERMANTOWN CITY PWS's 21 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 GERMANTOWN CITY PWS is from 2021-10-12 (health-based: 2007-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GERMANTOWN CITY PWS'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); Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
GERMANTOWN CITY PWS'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 GERMANTOWN CITY PWS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 838th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.