Community Water System · PWS CT0720313
Scwa, Ledyard Center Division
Operator location Gales Ferry, Connecticut - 79% of 43 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 652 served per SDWIS.
- 652
- People served (this PWS)
- 43
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Scwa, Ledyard Center Division standing, mid SDWIS violation third
79% of 43 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 79% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #25,151 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Scwa, Ledyard Center Division lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (652; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 79% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #25,151 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #142 of 184
- Population · CT
- 43
- Total EPA violations on record
- 79%
- 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
- 27
- County
- New London
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 34
- Monitoring Violations
- 7
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 34 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2017 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Scwa, Ledyard Center Division has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 79% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 43), and it ranks #25,151 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)
43 Around the middle fewer violations than 47% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Scwa, Ledyard Center Division
34 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for CT0720313.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
43 violations · 652 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Scwa, Ledyard Center Division
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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