Is PRINEVILLE, CITY OF's water safe to drink?

PRINEVILLE, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 11,000 people get their water from it, across 4,056 connections.

Ranked against every other system in this dataset

PRINEVILLE, CITY OF has 218 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,121th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 45th percentile nationally.

Against the OR average

OR's 160 covered systems average 6.0 health-based violations each; PRINEVILLE, CITY OF 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

PRINEVILLE, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-06, with the most recent health-based one dated 2006-01-05. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

PRINEVILLE, CITY OF'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 PRINEVILLE, CITY OF's record does not cover

This is what PRINEVILLE, CITY OF 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 PRINEVILLE, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,121th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.