Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) Water Quality
Is Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant)'s water safe to drink?
Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,780 people get their water from it, across 1,050 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
6 total violations and 2 health-based ones put Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) at the 47th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,789 of 12,903.
How Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) compares among its peers
EPA's own record does not list a state for Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) - common for systems it regulates directly rather than through a state agency, mostly tribal water systems. Among the 9 such systems on this site, the average is 3.7 health-based violations; Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant)'s 2 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) is from 2023-01-01 (health-based: 2019-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/29/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant)'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: Groundwater 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
This is what Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) 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. This record - 2 health-based violations on file for Pottawatomie Co. Rwd #3 (dale Plant) - 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.