Community Water System · PWS FL2210647
Lancaster Correctional Institute
Operator location Tallahassee, Florida - 22% of 41 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,175 served per SDWIS.
- 1,175
- People served (this PWS)
- 41
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lancaster Correctional Institute standing, mid SDWIS violation third
22% of 41 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,103 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lancaster Correctional Institute lands in the middle third by violation volume (41), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,175 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,103 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #618 of 905
- Population · FL
- 41
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 35
- County
- Gilchrist
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 20
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 10 | 1988 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2002 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2022 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lancaster Correctional Institute has 41 recorded EPA violations, 51% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 41), and it ranks #18,103 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)
41 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Lancaster Correctional Institute
9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for FL2210647.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
41 violations · 1,175 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 Lancaster Correctional Institute
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