DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in JAMESTOWN CITY OF's water?

JAMESTOWN 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: 15,427, over 4,500 connections.

JAMESTOWN CITY OF's record against the rest of the country

JAMESTOWN CITY OF has 4 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,829th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 32th percentile nationally.

How JAMESTOWN CITY OF compares within ND

Among the 52 ND systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - JAMESTOWN CITY OF's 1 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 JAMESTOWN CITY OF is from 2014-01-10 (health-based: 2014-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

JAMESTOWN 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:

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

This is what JAMESTOWN CITY OF reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 4 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.