Is TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM's water safe to drink?
TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 2,500 people through 1,157 service connections.
How this compares nationally
TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM has 27 violations on record in total, 19 of thems health-based - ranking it 966th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 93th percentile nationally.
Against the MD average
Among the 93 MD systems in this dataset, the average is 3.3 health-based violations - TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM's 19 is above that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.
Most recent violation on record
TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM's most recent violation on record is dated 2022-01-03, with the most recent health-based one dated 2015-01-07. Last reported to EPA: 05/18/2026.
The concern categories on record
TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM'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: Surface Water Treatment Rule
- Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: TTHM
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 SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM's record does not cover
Everything on this page is TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 19 health-based violations on file for TOWN OF SMITHSBURG DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - 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.