Is TOWN OF FALKNER's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF FALKNER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 2,780, over 1,066 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
TOWN OF FALKNER has 244 violations on record in total, 1 of them health-based - ranking it 7,107th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 45th percentile nationally.
How TOWN OF FALKNER compares within MS
Among the 349 MS systems in this dataset, the average is 3.2 health-based violations - TOWN OF FALKNER's 1 is at or below that. 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 TOWN OF FALKNER is from 2024-01-01 (health-based: 2001-08-08). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWN OF FALKNER'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)
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 TOWN OF FALKNER 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 TOWN OF FALKNER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,107th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.