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Cheshire County, New Hampshire

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NH005 · Cheshire County 170 sys · 12,313 viol · #751/3254

VIOL-SEVERE · HEALTH-LOW · RANK-UPPER · PHOTO-FINISH · PFAS-MID · SRC-GW · SYS-LARGE · BOOK-FULL

  • VIOL-SEVERE 87.1% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 9.5% health
  • RANK-UPPER #751/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.9 pp
  • PFAS-MID 33.3% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 98%
  • SYS-LARGE 170 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Sullivan County ( -0.9 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Cheshire County ranks #751 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #8 of 10 counties in New Hampshire. See methodology · corpus placement.

Cheshire County standing, lower-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 87.1% is at or below the corpus lower third (≤ 92.7% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 9.5% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 33.3% is UCMR5 detect rate in the tested-pool middle third (≤ 33.3%) . Population served ranks #751 of 3,254 · #8 of 10 in New Hampshire.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Cheshire County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Sullivan · lowest Rockingham · near Belknap · near 86.2% 87.1% 88% 88.6% 89.8% 94.4%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Keene Water Dept 30,000 81 Clean
Jaffrey Water Works 3,800 112 Detected
Winchester Water Dept 2,800 13 -
North Hinsdale Water Dept 1,800 405 -
Franklin Pierce University 1,638 179 -
Hinsdale Water Dept/Downtown 1,600 502 -
N Swanzey Water and Fire Prct 1,400 40 -
Monadnock Regional High Sch 1,202 117 -
Troy Water Works 1,200 245 -
Walpole Water Dept 1,057 539 -
Marlborough Water Works 750 245 -
Honey Farms Store 92 700 84 -
N Walpole Village District/Low 625 257 -
Chesterfield Petro 500 6 -
Rindge Memorial Sch 450 62 -
West Swanzey Water 430 104 -
Grace Comm Evang Free Church 400 8 -
Residential Camp Monadnock 400 12 -
Veterans of Foreign Wars 5613 400 125 -
Stuart and Johns Sugar House 400 0 -
Cheshire County Complex 380 370 -
Camp Takodah 375 27 -
Alstead Vilas Sch 367 2 -
Camp Spofford/Kitchen 357 32 -
United Natural Foods 330 40 Clean
Chesterfield Central Sch 322 110 -
State Line Campground 313 36 -
Woodmore Campground 313 44 -
Pine Grove Mobile Home Park 305 110 -
Kingdom Christian Ministries 300 39 -
Hannaford Rindge 8180 275 14 -
Hometown Irving 250 13 -
Rindge Crossings 250 8 -
View Point Coop 248 928 -
Swanzey Lake Camping Area 224 26 -
Dublin School 215 104 -
Aldworth Manor 212 8 -
Ashuelot River Campground 202 4 -
Town Beach Wares Grove 200 39 -
Pierre Place 200 7 -
Riverside Hotel 200 34 -
Monadnock State Park/Main 200 32 -
Camp Wanocksett/Parking Lot 200 36 -
Camp Wanocksett/Kitchen 200 0 -
St Benedict Center Monastery 200 121 -
Shir Roy Camping Area 200 52 -
Monadnock Tenants 200 38 -
Cheshire Market Place 200 154 -
Camp Starfish / Moose Manor 200 0 -
Camp Starfish/Kitchen 200 0 -

Compare beyond New Hampshire

Lower-flagged peers for Cheshire County

Cross-state counties nearest Cheshire County on flagged-system share (87.1%) and cumulative violation count (12,313). 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.

4 peers

Similar violation load

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

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

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