Community Water System · PWS CT0560011
Salmon Brook District Water Dept
Operator location Granby, Connecticut - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 127 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,151 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,151
- People served (this PWS)
- 127
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Salmon Brook District Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
127 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,012 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salmon Brook District Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (127), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,151 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,012 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #73 of 184
- Population · CT
- 127
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 456
- County
- Hartford
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 101
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 18 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2022 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2001 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1997 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 1991 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 2 | 2006 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 2 | 2006 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2006 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salmon Brook District Water Dept has 127 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 22% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 127), and it ranks #13,012 of 29,740 by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
127 Higher than most more violations than 78% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Salmon Brook District Water Dept
127 violations on record for CT0560011; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
127 violations · 2,151 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
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