DrinkingWaterCheck

What's in YORK, CITY OF's water?

YORK, CITY OF has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. 8,091 people get their water from it, across 3,460 connections.

How this compares nationally

16 total violations and 13 health-based ones put YORK, CITY OF at the 88th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 1,517 of 12,903.

How YORK, CITY OF compares within NE

YORK, CITY OF's 13 health-based violations sit above the NE average of 8.9, across 64 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 YORK, CITY OF is from 2016-01-04 (health-based: 2016-01-04). Last reported to EPA: 06/30/2026.

What kind of problem, specifically

YORK, 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:

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

YORK, 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. Between the utility's meter and YORK, CITY OF's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 1,517th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.