Is SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS's water safe to drink?
SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 61,821 people through 19,000 service connections.
How this compares nationally
SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS has 34 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,598th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 41th percentile nationally.
Against the NY average
SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS'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
SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS's most recent violation on record is dated 2007-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 1995-01-01. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
The concern categories on record
SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS's record does not cover
Everything on this page is SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for SCHENECTADY CITY WATER WORKS - 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.