Is VENETA, CITY OF's water safe to drink?

VENETA, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 5,200 people through 1,820 service connections.

VENETA, CITY OF's record against the rest of the country

VENETA, CITY OF has 28 violations on record in total, 2 of thems health-based - ranking it 6,093th of 12,903 systems by violation count, the 53th percentile nationally.

How VENETA, CITY OF compares within OR

VENETA, CITY OF's 2 health-based violations sit within the OR average of 6.0, across 160 systems statewide. 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 VENETA, CITY OF is from 2025-01-05 (health-based: 2009-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/26/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

VENETA, CITY OF'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

VENETA, CITY OF'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 28 logged violations can see. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.