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Community Water System · PWS FL3350690

Lake Correctional Institution

Operator location Tallahassee, Florida - 3% of 65 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,500 served per SDWIS.

1,500
People served (this PWS)
65
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Lake Correctional Institution standing, mid SDWIS violation third

3% of 65 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,891 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Lake Correctional Institution lands in the middle third by violation volume (65), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#15,891 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#549 of 905
Population · FL
65
Total EPA violations on record
3%
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
40
County
Lake
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
47
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 10 2017
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 10 2017
Nitrate MR 9 1994
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 6 2014
E. COLI MR 6 2025
Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule MR 4 2010
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2009
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2025
Public Notice Other 2 2018
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 2010
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2007

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Lake Correctional Institution has 65 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 65), and it ranks #15,891 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)

65 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Lake Correctional Institution

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 FL3350690.

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

Nationwide peers

65 violations · 1,500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Lake Correctional Institution

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
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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