Community Water System · PWS MA1113017
Bard College at Simons Rock
Operator location Great Barrington, Massachusetts - 50% of 18 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 500 served per SDWIS.
- 500
- People served (this PWS)
- 18
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bard College at Simons Rock standing, low SDWIS violation third
50% of 18 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 50% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #28,937 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bard College at Simons Rock is in the lower third by violation count (18; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (500; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 50% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #28,937 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #393 of 418
- Population · MA
- 18
- Total EPA violations on record
- 50%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 20
- County
- Berkshire
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 2
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2014 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 2 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 2 | 2015 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2012 |
| Asbestos | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bard College at Simons Rock has 18 recorded EPA violations, 29% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 70% carry more. 50% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 18), and it ranks #28,937 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)
18 Lower than most fewer violations than 70% 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 Bard College at Simons Rock
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 MA1113017.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
18 violations · 500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
- Cheyenne Arapaho Concho EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Assiniboine & Sioux Rural Water System EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Poplar, City Of EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
- Torreon-Ojo Encino East - NTUA EPA Region 9 — Tribal Water Systems 18violations
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bard College at Simons Rock
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Massachusetts compares on the same EPA violation measures. Massachusetts systems
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