Community Water System · PWS FL5110089
Everglades City
Operator location Everglades City, Florida - 72% of 212 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,978 served per SDWIS.
- 2,978
- People served (this PWS)
- 212
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 152
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Everglades City standing, high SDWIS violation third
72% of 212 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 72% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #10,737 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Everglades City sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (212), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,978 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 72% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #10,737 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #416 of 905
- Population · FL
- 212
- Total EPA violations on record
- 72%
- 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
- 1,191
- County
- Collier
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 150
- Monitoring Violations
- 35
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 75 | 2011 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 69 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 11 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 10 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| E. COLI | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2016 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2005 |
| Asbestos | MR | 2 | 2011 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 1 | 1980 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Everglades City has 212 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 72% of this system's own violations are health-based (152 of 212), and it ranks #10,737 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)
212 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Everglades City
152 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for FL5110089.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
212 violations · 2,978 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Everglades City
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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