Is MONTPELIER CITY OF's water safe to drink?
MONTPELIER CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,772 people get their water from it, across 1,344 connections.
MONTPELIER CITY OF's record against the rest of the country
MONTPELIER CITY OF has 21 violations on record in total, 6 of thems health-based - ranking it 3,095th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 76th percentile nationally.
How MONTPELIER CITY OF compares within ID
ID's 88 covered systems average 10.3 health-based violations each; MONTPELIER CITY OF carries 6, not more than typical for the state. 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 MONTPELIER CITY OF is from 2025-06-12 (health-based: 2003-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MONTPELIER 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
Everything on this page is MONTPELIER CITY OF's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and MONTPELIER CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 3,095th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.