Is PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT's water safe to drink?
PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 10,241 people get their water from it, across 3,689 connections.
How this compares nationally
41 total violations and 1 health-based ones put PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,517 of 12,903.
How PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT compares within IN
IN's 283 covered systems average 2.9 health-based violations each; PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT carries 1, not more than typical for the state. 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 PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 1995-01-06). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT'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 this data is and is not
This is what PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and PLYMOUTH WATER DEPARTMENT's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,517th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.