Plainview Wd, NY Water Quality
Plainview Wd: EPA violation history, explained
Plainview Wd has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 34,000 people through 10,329 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Plainview Wd has 59 violations on record in total, 2 of them health-based - ranking it 5,876th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 54th percentile nationally.
How Plainview Wd compares within NY
Plainview Wd's 2 health-based violations sit within the NY average of 4.3, across 452 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Plainview Wd is from 2017-01-07 (health-based: 2017-01-07). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Plainview Wd'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:
- Synthetic organic chemicals / pesticides / VOCs - flagged from: Tetrachloroethylene; cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene
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
Plainview Wd'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. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for Plainview Wd - 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.