Is MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY's water safe to drink?
MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,077 people through 2,210 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,018th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.
How MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY compares within IA
MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY's 1 health-based violations sit within the IA average of 3.5, across 203 systems statewide. 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 MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY is from 1988-01-04 (health-based: 1983-01-10). Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY'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:
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
The most severe category on record is nitrate / nitrite, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY'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 MANCHESTER WATER SUPPLY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,018th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.