Is MITCHELL's water safe to drink?
MITCHELL has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 15,651 people get their water from it, across 6,125 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
MITCHELL has 39 violations on record in total, 6 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,019th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 77th percentile nationally.
Against the SD average
MITCHELL's 6 health-based violations sit above the SD average of 3.0, across 74 systems statewide. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
MITCHELL's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-10, with the most recent health-based one dated 1994-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
The concern categories on record
MITCHELL'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)
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 MITCHELL's record does not cover
MITCHELL'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 MITCHELL's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,019th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.