What's in SWEET HOME, CITY OF's water?

SWEET HOME, 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 10,322 people through 3,185 service connections.

SWEET HOME, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country

155 total violations and 83 health-based ones put SWEET HOME, CITY OF at the 99th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 107 of 12,903.

Against the OR average

OR's 160 covered systems average 6.0 health-based violations each; SWEET HOME, CITY OF carries 83, more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

SWEET HOME, CITY OF's most recent violation on record is dated 2026-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2005-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

The concern categories on record

SWEET HOME, 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:

• Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR); 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 SWEET HOME, CITY OF's record does not cover

SWEET HOME, 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. This record - 83 health-based violations on file for SWEET HOME, CITY OF - 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.