DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM's water?

ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,000 people through 1,792 service connections.

How this compares nationally

44 total violations and 10 health-based ones put ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM at the 85th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,920 of 12,903.

How ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM compares within VT

VT's 51 covered systems average 5.2 health-based violations each; ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM carries 10, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

The last violation EPA has on record for ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM is from 2025-01-07 (health-based: 2007-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM'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:

The most severe category on record is disinfection byproducts, which points toward a carbon-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM'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. This record - 10 health-based violations on file for ST JOHNSBURY WATER SYSTEM - 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.