Community Water System · PWS FL1660524
City of Paxton
Operator location Paxton, Florida - 4% of 48 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,578 served per SDWIS.
- 1,578
- People served (this PWS)
- 48
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
City of Paxton standing, mid SDWIS violation third
4% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,484 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
City of Paxton lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,578 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,484 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #538 of 905
- Population · FL
- 48
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 683
- County
- Walton
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 36
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2012 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 2021 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1985 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
City of Paxton has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 48), and it ranks #15,484 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)
48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 City of Paxton
2 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for FL1660524.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
48 violations · 1,578 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with City of Paxton
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