Is GRIC DPW Sacaton's water safe to drink?
GRIC DPW Sacaton has at least one health-based violation EPA's ECHO database still lists as unaddressed - the required fix has not been reported complete. 5,307 people get their water from it, across 1,449 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
64 total violations and 11 health-based ones put GRIC DPW Sacaton at the 87th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,717 of 12,903.
How GRIC DPW Sacaton compares within AZ
AZ's 199 covered systems average 8.2 health-based violations each; GRIC DPW Sacaton carries 11, more than typical for the state. 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 GRIC DPW Sacaton is from 2025-05-10 (health-based: 2025-05-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
GRIC DPW Sacaton'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Radionuclides - flagged from: Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is GRIC DPW Sacaton'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 GRIC DPW Sacaton's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,717th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.