Is PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
PAYSON 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. 19,000 people get their water from it, across 6,225 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
91 total violations and 7 health-based ones put PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM at the 80th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,568 of 12,903.
Against the UT average
Among the 145 UT systems in this dataset, the average is 2.8 health-based violations - PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM's 7 is above that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2014-01-09. Last reported to EPA: 06/17/2026.
The concern categories on record
PAYSON 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:
- 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 PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM's record does not cover
PAYSON 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 PAYSON CITY WATER SYSTEM's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,568th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.