Is SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD's water safe to drink?
SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. 13,758 people get their water from it, across 4,586 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
4 total violations and 2 health-based ones put SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD at the 46th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 6,933 of 12,903.
Against the AL average
Among the 364 AL systems in this dataset, the average is 2.1 health-based violations - SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD's 2 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD's most recent violation on record is dated 2025-01-07, with the most recent health-based one dated 2025-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD'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:
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD's record does not cover
SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD'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 SHEFFIELD UTILITIES, CITY OF SHEFFIELD's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 6,933th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.