Is PENDLETON, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
PENDLETON, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 16,996, over 6,020 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
39 total violations and 8 health-based ones put PENDLETON, CITY OF at the 82th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,366 of 12,903.
How PENDLETON, CITY OF compares within OR
Among the 160 OR systems in this dataset, the average is 6.0 health-based violations - PENDLETON, CITY OF's 8 is above 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 PENDLETON, CITY OF is from 2024-01-10 (health-based: 2012-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PENDLETON, 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); Surface Water Treatment 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 PENDLETON, CITY OF's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 8 health-based violations on file for PENDLETON, CITY OF - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.