Is TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's water safe to drink?
TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY had a health-based violation within the last five years. The required corrective action was reported, but it happened recently enough to matter. Population served: 5,000, over 2,232 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
307 total violations and 2 health-based ones put TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY at the 56th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,647 of 12,903.
How TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY compares within PA
TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's 2 health-based violations sit within the PA average of 5.5, across 475 systems statewide. 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 TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY is from 2026-11-01 (health-based: 2024-01-02). Last reported to EPA: 06/15/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY'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: Groundwater Rule; 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
This is what TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and TOWANDA MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,647th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.