Is OXFORD BOROUGH's water safe to drink?
OXFORD BOROUGH has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,280, over 1,720 connections.
OXFORD BOROUGH's record against the rest of the country
OXFORD BOROUGH has 139 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,197th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 44th percentile nationally.
How OXFORD BOROUGH compares within PA
OXFORD BOROUGH's 1 health-based violations sit within the PA average of 5.5, across 475 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for OXFORD BOROUGH is from 2025-01-04 (health-based: 2012-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
OXFORD BOROUGH'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: Groundwater 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
Everything on this page is OXFORD BOROUGH'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 OXFORD BOROUGH's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,197th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.