Community Water System · PWS DE0000126
Harrington Water Department
Operator location Harrington, Delaware - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,562 people served; 43 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,562
- People served (this PWS)
- 43
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Harrington Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
3,562 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,506 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Harrington Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,562; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,506 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #34 of 117
- Population · DE
- 43
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- 1,251
- County
- Kent
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 18
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 11 | 2021 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1997 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Harrington Water Department has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 43), and it ranks #9,506 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
Population served record for Harrington Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 3,562 people served and 1,251 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
43 violations · 3,562 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 similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Harrington Water Department
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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