What's in TOWN OF MANCHESTER's water?
TOWN OF MANCHESTER has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. Population served: 4,954, over 1,714 connections.
How this compares nationally
TOWN OF MANCHESTER has 57 violations on record in total, 4 of thems health-based - ranking it 4,010th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 69th percentile nationally.
How TOWN OF MANCHESTER compares within MD
Among the 93 MD systems in this dataset, the average is 3.3 health-based violations - TOWN OF MANCHESTER's 4 is above that. 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 TOWN OF MANCHESTER is from 2014-01-10 (health-based: 2003-01-01). Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
TOWN OF MANCHESTER'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:
- Lead & copper - flagged from: Lead and Copper Rule
- Nitrate / nitrite - flagged from: Nitrate
- Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Surface Water Treatment Rule
The most severe category on record is lead & copper, which points toward a lead-class filter if you want to address it directly.
What this data is and is not
Everything on this page is TOWN OF MANCHESTER's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. Between the utility's meter and TOWN OF MANCHESTER's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 4,010th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.