Is READING CITY PWS's water safe to drink?
READING CITY PWS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 9,506 people through 3,760 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
READING CITY PWS has 24 violations on record in total, 3 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,983th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 61th percentile nationally.
How READING CITY PWS compares within OH
Among the 394 OH systems in this dataset, the average is 5.5 health-based violations - READING CITY PWS's 3 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 READING CITY PWS is from 2026-01-01 (health-based: 1996-01-09). Last reported to EPA: 05/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
READING CITY PWS'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
Everything on this page is READING CITY PWS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and READING CITY PWS's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,983th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.