Is SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE)'s water safe to drink?
SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE) has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 9,870 people get their water from it, across 1,540 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
24 total violations and 1 health-based ones put SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE) at the 40th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,745 of 12,903.
How SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE) compares within NY
SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE)'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
The last violation EPA has on record for SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE) is from 2020-01-12 (health-based: 1995-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE)'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
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
SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE)'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 SLEEPY HOLLOW (VILLAGE)'s customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,745th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.