Is HOMESTEAD, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
HOMESTEAD, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 80,000, over 37,822 connections.
HOMESTEAD, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country
HOMESTEAD, CITY OF has 32 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,900th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 62th percentile nationally.
How HOMESTEAD, CITY OF compares within FL
Among the 482 FL systems in this dataset, the average is 4.5 health-based violations - HOMESTEAD, CITY OF's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for HOMESTEAD, CITY OF is from 2024-01-12 (health-based: 1994-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOMESTEAD, CITY OF'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
Everything on this page is HOMESTEAD, CITY OF's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 3 health-based violations on file for HOMESTEAD, CITY OF - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.