DrinkingWaterCheck

Is MONROE CITY PWS's water safe to drink?

MONROE CITY PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 15,600 people through 4,536 service connections.

MONROE CITY PWS's record against the rest of the country

37 total violations and 2 health-based ones put MONROE CITY PWS at the 53th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,001 of 12,903.

How MONROE CITY PWS compares within OH

Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - MONROE CITY PWS's 2 is at or below that. 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 MONROE CITY PWS is from 2026-02-05 (health-based: 1993-01-11). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

MONROE CITY PWS'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:

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

Everything on this page is MONROE CITY PWS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for MONROE CITY PWS - 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.