DrinkingWaterCheck

Is KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1's water safe to drink?

KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1 has no violations on record in EPA's SDWIS data. It serves 2,600 people through 950 service connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1 at the 0th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,858 of 12,903.

Against the NY average

NY's 443 covered systems average 4.1 health-based violations each; KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1 carries 0, not more than typical for the state. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.

Why "no violations" needs a caveat here

KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1 serves 2,600 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.

What KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1's record does not cover

KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and KIRKWOOD CONSOLIDATED WD #1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 12,858th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.