Is PLATTSBURGH CITY's water safe to drink?
PLATTSBURGH CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 24,173 people get their water from it, across 5,357 connections.
How this compares nationally
PLATTSBURGH CITY has 61 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,378th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 43th percentile nationally.
Against the NY average
PLATTSBURGH CITY's 1 health-based violations sit within the NY average of 4.1, across 443 systems statewide. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
PLATTSBURGH CITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2015-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2011-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
The concern categories on record
PLATTSBURGH CITY'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 PLATTSBURGH CITY's record does not cover
PLATTSBURGH CITY'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 PLATTSBURGH CITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,378th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.