Is MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 126,250 people get their water from it, across 38,900 connections.
How this compares nationally
32 total violations and 25 health-based ones put MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY at the 94th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 713 of 12,903.
How MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY compares within NY
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY's 25 is above 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 MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY is from 2017-01-12 (health-based: 2017-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY'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); Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule
- 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 this data is and is not
MVWA - MOHAWK VALLEY WATER AUTHORITY'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. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 32 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.