Is PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 34,345 people through 20,679 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
11 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM at the 37th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,141 of 12,903.
How PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM compares within FL
Among the 482 FL systems in this dataset, the average is 4.5 health-based violations - PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM is from 2024-10-08 (health-based: 2014-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM'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 PANAMA CITY WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,141th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.