DrinkingWaterCheck

Is VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE's water safe to drink?

VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 5,940 people get their water from it, across 2,376 connections.

How this compares nationally

49 total violations and 1 health-based ones put VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE at the 42th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 7,447 of 12,903.

How VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE compares within AZ

VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE's 1 health-based violations sit within the AZ average of 8.2, across 199 systems statewide. 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 VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE is from 2017-03-11 (health-based: 1983-06-04). Last reported to EPA: 05/14/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE'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:

The most severe category on record is other regulated metals, which points toward a reverse osmosis-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What this data is and is not

VALLEY UTILITIES WATER COMPANY GLENDALE's numbers here come from its own required reporting to EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act, not from an independent test of your glass of water. Water quality can still change between the meter and the faucet - household plumbing sits outside what a record of 49 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.