Is MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 7,145 people through 2,883 service connections.
How this compares nationally
MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF has 288 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,098th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 45th percentile nationally.
How MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF compares within OR
MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF's 1 health-based violations sit within the OR average of 6.0, across 160 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF is from 2024-01-07 (health-based: 1993-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MILTON-FREEWATER, 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:
- 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
MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF'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 MILTON-FREEWATER, CITY OF - 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.