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Community Water System · PWS FL2380188

Manatee Utilities

Operator location Bronson, Florida - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 290 people served; 50 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

290
People served (this PWS)
50
EPA violations (this PWS)
3
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Manatee Utilities standing, mid SDWIS violation third

290 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Manatee Utilities lands in the middle third by violation volume (50), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (290; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

50
Total EPA violations on record
6%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
290
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.

System Details

System Type
Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
63
County
Levy
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
28
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 7 2007
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 6 2025
Antimony, Total MR 4 1997
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 2 1987
Nitrate MR 2 1996
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2009
Selenium MR 1 1987
Mercury MR 1 1987
Fluoride MR 1 1987
Chromium MR 1 1987
Cadmium MR 1 1987
Arsenic MR 1 1987
Barium MR 1 1987
Antimony, Total MCL 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Manatee Utilities has 50 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 50), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

50 Around the middle fewer violations than 43% 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 Manatee Utilities

EPA SDWIS lists 290 people served and 63 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

50 violations · 290 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.

4 peers

What to do with Manatee Utilities

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Florida compares on the same EPA violation measures. Florida systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater