Is SPECULATOR V's water safe to drink?
SPECULATOR V has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,008 people through 325 service connections.
SPECULATOR V's record against the rest of the country
5 total violations and 1 health-based ones put SPECULATOR V at the 32th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 8,782 of 12,903.
How SPECULATOR V compares within NY
SPECULATOR V's 1 health-based violations sit within the NY average of 4.1, across 443 systems statewide. The filter guide explains what a violation like this actually calls for.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for SPECULATOR V is from 2005-01-09 (health-based: 1992-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
SPECULATOR V'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
SPECULATOR V'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 SPECULATOR V's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 8,782th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.