Is HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 8,410 people get their water from it, across 2,862 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
42 total violations and 9 health-based ones put HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY at the 84th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,117 of 12,903.
How HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY compares within PA
Among the 475 PA systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's 9 is above 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 HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2021-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: CARBON, TOTAL
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 HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY'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 HOUTZDALE MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,117th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.