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PAYSON TOWN OF: EPA violation history, explained

PAYSON TOWN OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 17,682 people through 7,688 service connections.

PAYSON TOWN OF's record against the rest of the country

1,528 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PAYSON TOWN OF at the 45th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,068 of 12,903.

How PAYSON TOWN OF compares within AZ

PAYSON TOWN OF's 1 health-based violations sit within the AZ average of 8.2, across 199 systems statewide. 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 PAYSON TOWN OF is from 2025-01-01 (health-based: 1987-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

PAYSON TOWN 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:

The most severe category on record is synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / vocs, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

PAYSON TOWN 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 PAYSON TOWN OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,068th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.