Is WHITE PLAINS CITY's water safe to drink?
WHITE PLAINS CITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 59,559 people through 9,400 service connections.
Ranked against every other system in this dataset
Out of 12,903 systems in this dataset, WHITE PLAINS CITY ranks 8,939th by violation burden (31th percentile) - 3 violations total, 1 health-based.
How WHITE PLAINS CITY compares within NY
Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - WHITE PLAINS CITY's 1 is at or below that. See the lead and copper guide for why lead counts differently.
Most recent violation on record
The last violation EPA has on record for WHITE PLAINS CITY is from 2009-01-01 (health-based: 1999-01-03). Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.
What kind of problem, specifically
WHITE PLAINS CITY'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
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
WHITE PLAINS CITY'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. This record - 1 health-based violation on file for WHITE PLAINS CITY - 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.