Community Water System · PWS FL3350476
Groveland Water Department
Operator location Groveland, Florida - larger served population (> 3,309) at 23,628 people served; 51 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 23,628
- People served (this PWS)
- 51
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Groveland Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
23,628 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #2,370 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Groveland Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (51), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (23,628; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #2,370 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #169 of 905
- Population · FL
- 51
- 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
- 4,352
- County
- Lake
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 25
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 10 | 2024 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2012 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1993 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2015 |
| E. COLI | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1984 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Groveland Water Department has 51 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 43% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 51), and it ranks #2,370 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)
51 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 Groveland Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 23,628 people served and 4,352 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
51 violations · 23,628 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 Groveland Water Department
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