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Nassau County, New York

SDWIS compliance plate

Sheet NY059 · Nassau County 44 sys · 7,471 viol · #36/3254

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

  • VIOL-SEVERE 97.7% flagged
  • HEALTH-LOW 2.8% health
  • RANK-TOP #36/3254
  • PHOTO-FINISH ±0.1 pp
  • PFAS-HIGH 60.6% detect
  • SRC-GW GW lead 100%
  • SYS-MID 44 systems
  • BOOK-FULL 7/7 fields

Nearest flagged-rate peer: Oswego County ( -0.1 pp flagged-rate)

According to EPA SDWIS county population served used on /counties, Nassau County ranks #36 of 3,254 counties by people served, and #3 of 58 counties in New York. See methodology · corpus placement.

Nassau County standing, mid-flagged corpus third

Flagged-system rate 97.7% is in the corpus middle third (≤ 100.0% flagged) across 2,973 counties with ≥3 SDWIS systems . Health-based share 2.8% is health-based share at or below the lower third (≤ 10.3%) . UCMR5 detect rate 60.6% is UCMR5 detect rate above the tested-pool upper third (> 33.3%) . Population served ranks #36 of 3,254 · #3 of 58 in New York.

Flagged-rate neighbourhood around Nassau County

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

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Niagara · lowest Oswego · near Otsego · near Cortland · highest 38.1% 97.4% 97.6% 97.7% 98% 98% 100%

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

Water Systems

System Name Population Violations PFAS
Liberty Utilities New York - Lynbrook 220,000 19 Detected
Liberty Utilities New York - Merrick 135,000 249 Clean
WA of Western Nassau 120,000 25 Detected
Town of Hempstead Water Department 110,000 2 Detected
Jericho WD 58,000 373 Detected
Hempstead (V) 56,000 237 Detected
Hicksville WD 48,000 9 Detected
Freeport (V) 45,000 5 Clean
South Farmingdale WD 44,700 1 Clean
Manhasset Lakeville WD 43,000 1,476 Detected
Massapequa WD 43,000 346 Clean
Long Beach City 35,000 21 Clean
Plainview WD 34,000 236 Detected
Port Washington WD 34,000 582 Detected
Bethpage WD 33,000 9 Detected
West Hempstead WD 32,031 327 Clean
Jones Beach State Park 30,799 17 -
Glen Cove City 28,000 534 Detected
Rockville Centre (V) 24,700 131 Clean
Garden City (V) 23,272 96 Detected
Mineola (V) 20,600 82 Detected
Westbury WD 20,500 34 Detected
Franklin Square WD 20,000 127 Clean
Garden City Park WD 18,000 16 Detected
Roslyn WD 17,000 95 Detected
Albertson WD 13,500 1,243 Detected
Liberty Utilities New York - Sea Cliff 13,400 9 Clean
Carle Place WD 9,005 248 Clean
Farmingdale (V) 8,744 8 Clean
Oyster Bay WD 8,700 12 Detected
Locust Valley WD 7,500 6 Detected
Williston Park (V) 7,287 14 Detected
Bayville (V) 6,700 76 Clean
Old Westbury (V) 4,700 9 Clean
Sands Point (V) 2,900 0 -
East Williston (V) 2,556 9 -
Tobay Beach 2,420 247 -
Lido-Point Lookout WD 2,000 16 -
Plandome (V) 1,600 20 -
Cathedral Gardens WD 1,500 76 -
Glenwood WD 1,000 1 -
Liberty Utilities New York - Mill Neck 280 18 -
Seawanhaka Yacht Club 60 298 -
Beaver Dam Winter Sports 35 112 -

Compare beyond New York

Mid-flagged peers for Nassau County

Cross-state counties nearest Nassau County on flagged-system share (97.7%) and cumulative violation count (7,471). 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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