Is TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 5,000, over 1,670 connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
17 total violations and 1 health-based ones put TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN at the 39th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,906 of 12,903.
Against the MD average
MD's 93 covered systems average 3.3 health-based violations each; TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN carries 1, not more than typical for the state. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN's most recent violation on record is dated 2024-01-01, with the most recent health-based one dated 2016-01-06. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN'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: Revised Total Coliform 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 TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN's record does not cover
This is what TOWN OF LEONARDTOWN 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 LEONARDTOWN's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 7,906th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.