Is SEWARD, CITY OF's water safe to drink?
SEWARD, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 7,700 people through 2,850 service connections.
How this compares nationally
SEWARD, CITY OF has 27 violations on record in total, 25 of thems health-based - ranking it 717th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 94th percentile nationally.
Against the NE average
Among the 64 NE systems in this dataset, the average is 8.9 health-based violations - SEWARD, CITY OF's 25 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
SEWARD, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2004-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2004-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.
The concern categories on record
SEWARD, 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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate; Nitrate-Nitrite
- Other regulated metals - flagged from: Selenium
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What SEWARD, CITY OF's record does not cover
SEWARD, CITY OF's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Between the utility's meter and SEWARD, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 717th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.