PENN YAN VILLAGE: EPA violation history, explained
PENN YAN VILLAGE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,248 people get their water from it, across 2,240 connections.
How this compares nationally
82 total violations and 8 health-based ones put PENN YAN VILLAGE at the 82th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 2,325 of 12,903.
How PENN YAN VILLAGE compares within NY
PENN YAN VILLAGE's 8 health-based violations sit above the NY average of 4.1, across 443 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 PENN YAN VILLAGE is from 2025-05-11 (health-based: 2014-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PENN YAN VILLAGE'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
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 PENN YAN VILLAGE'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 PENN YAN VILLAGE's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 2,325th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.