What's in GLENS FALLS CITY's water?
GLENS FALLS CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 14,000 people get their water from it, across 5,200 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
65 total violations and 17 health-based ones put GLENS FALLS CITY at the 92th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,063 of 12,903.
Against the NY average
NY's 443 covered systems average 4.1 health-based violations each; GLENS FALLS CITY carries 17, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
GLENS FALLS CITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2017-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 2013-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
The concern categories on record
GLENS FALLS CITY'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
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 GLENS FALLS CITY's record does not cover
Everything on this page is GLENS FALLS CITY'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 GLENS FALLS CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,063th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.