Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MA1306004
Wales Elementary School
Operator location Wales, Massachusetts - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 108 people served; 67 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 108
- People served (this PWS)
- 67
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wales Elementary School standing, mid SDWIS violation third
108 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Wales Elementary School lands in the middle third by violation volume (67), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (108; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 67
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 108
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Hampden
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2000 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2003 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2014 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2015 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2003 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2003 |
| Nitrite | MR | 1 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wales Elementary School has 67 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 67), 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)
67 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
Population served record for Wales Elementary School
EPA SDWIS lists 108 people served and 1 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
67 violations · 108 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.
What to do with Wales Elementary School
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