Community Water System · PWS MA1283017
Heron Pond at Stockbridge
Operator location Stockbridge, Massachusetts - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 50 people served; 21 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 50
- People served (this PWS)
- 21
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Heron Pond at Stockbridge standing, low SDWIS violation third
50 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Heron Pond at Stockbridge is in the lower third by violation count (21; 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 (50; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 21
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 50
- 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
- 9
- County
- Berkshire
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 6
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2001 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 2 | 2016 |
| E. COLI | MR | 1 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Heron Pond at Stockbridge has 21 recorded EPA violations, 33% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 66% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 21), 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)
21 Lower than most fewer violations than 66% 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 Heron Pond at Stockbridge
EPA SDWIS lists 50 people served and 9 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
21 violations · 50 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.
What to do with Heron Pond at Stockbridge
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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