ORD, CITY OF: EPA violation history, explained

ORD, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 2,112 people get their water from it, across 1,184 connections.

How this compares nationally

ORD, CITY OF has 3 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 9,055th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 30th percentile nationally.

How ORD, CITY OF compares within NE

Among the 64 NE systems in this dataset, the average is 8.9 health-based violations - ORD, CITY OF's 1 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 ORD, CITY OF is from 2008-01-01 (health-based: 1999-01-08). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ORD, 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

ORD, CITY OF'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 ORD, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 9,055th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.