Is LEXINGTON PARK's water safe to drink?

LEXINGTON PARK has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 43,030, over 15,820 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

LEXINGTON PARK has 12 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 8,078th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 37th percentile nationally.

How LEXINGTON PARK compares within MD

Among the 93 MD systems in this dataset, the average is 3.3 health-based violations - LEXINGTON PARK's 1 is at or below that. 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 LEXINGTON PARK is from 2025-02-07 (health-based: 1991-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

LEXINGTON PARK'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

LEXINGTON PARK'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for LEXINGTON PARK - 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.