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Cayuga County, New York

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NY011 · Cayuga County 91 sys · 1,691 viol · #811/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · ABOVE-PEER · PFAS-CLEAN · SRC-GW · SYS-MID · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 84.6% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 18.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #811/3254
  • ABOVE-PEER +1.7 pp
  • PFAS-CLEAN 0.0% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 71%
  • SYS-MID 91 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Onondaga County ( -1.7 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cayuga County ranks #811 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #33 of 58 counties in New York. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cayuga County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 84.6% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 18.5% is health-based share in the middle third (≤ 24.5%) . UCMR5 detect rate 0.0% is UCMR5 detect rate at or below the tested-pool lower third (≤ 0.0%) . Population served ranks #811 of 3,254 · #33 of 58 in New York.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cayuga County

Lowest/highest poles plus in-state counties nearest Cayuga County on % of SDWIS systems with ≥1 violation. Full ladder: /counties.

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Niagara · lowest Onondaga · near Putnam · near Cortland · highest 38.1% 82.6% 83% 84.6% 88% 88.2% 100%

Source: EPA SDWIS (county aggregates) As of 2026-05-15

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Auburn 27,179 2 Clean
Sterling Renaissance Festival 3,523 10 -
Owasco Water District 3,000 30 -
Weedsport Village 2,300 0 -
Union Springs Village 2,000 27 -
Moravia Village 1,950 16 Clean
Fleming WD #1 1,800 25 -
Sennett Consolidated Water Districts 1,467 13 -
Port Byron Village 1,400 5 -
East Brutus Consolidated Water Districts 1,287 34 -
Nys Thruway- Port Byron Service Area 1,090 8 -
Fair Haven Village 1,001 19 Clean
Cayuga County Water & Sewer 958 13 -
Genoa-King Ferry WD 900 0 -
Aurelius WD No 3 872 98 -
Southern Cayuga Central School 860 17 -
Cato Village 601 30 -
Locke W D 600 33 -
Aurelius WD No 2 520 34 -
Circle K/Macs Convenience Stores 500 3 -
Speedway #9956 500 23 -
Springport Water District #1 - South 500 8 -
Springport Water District #1 - North 500 8 -
Montezuma W D #1 490 48 -
Cayuga Lake Mobile Home Park 463 44 -
Aurelius WD No 1 440 17 -
Aurora Village 400 3 -
Throop WD No1 400 27 -
Wells College 400 202 -
Mackenzie-Childs, Ltd 290 105 -
Hejamada Family Campsites 275 14 -
Cross Lake Park 250 17 -
Dudley Water Supply 200 27 -
Camp Casowasco 200 20 -
Camp Y-Owasco 200 5 -
Northeast Christian Conference Center 200 8 -
Ccwsa Phase 1A:aur, Flem, Spring 180 4 -
Sterling Wd#3 130 0 -
Finger Lakes Drive-in Theater 120 24 -
Yawger Brook Campground 100 10 -
Speedway #9946 100 10 -
Sterling Creek Campground 99 25 -
Golden Horseshoe Event Center 95 0 -
Bennetts Mobile Court 91 47 -
Whispering Winds Motel 90 5 -
Camp Caspar Gregory Corp 75 7 -
Fillmore Golf Course Club 75 19 -
Empire Haven 70 3 -
Westbury Water District-Ccwsa 67 8 -
Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park-Moravia 60 65 -

Compare beyond New York

Lower-flagged peers for Cayuga County

Cross-state counties nearest Cayuga County on flagged-system share (84.6%) and cumulative violation count (1,691). In-state neighbours stay on the compliance plate above.

Similar flagged-system rate

Nearest cross-state counties by % of SDWIS systems with at least one violation on record.

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Similar violation load

Nearest cross-state counties by cumulative SDWIS violation count (all systems in the county).

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater

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