Is ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1's water safe to drink?
ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1 has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 10,136 people through 3,870 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
7 total violations and 4 health-based ones put ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1 at the 65th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 4,503 of 12,903.
How ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1 compares within NY
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1's 4 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 ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1 is from 2024-01-04 (health-based: 2011-01-12). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1'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: Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule; Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
This is what ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1 reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and ONTARIO TOWN BENEFIT AREA #1's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,503th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.