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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MA2077006

Dcr Douglas State Forest

Operator location Boston, Massachusetts - 0% of 54 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 412 served per SDWIS.

412
People served (this PWS)
54
EPA violations (this PWS)
0
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Dcr Douglas State Forest standing, mid SDWIS violation third

0% of 54 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).

The verdict

Dcr Douglas State Forest lands in the middle third by violation volume (54), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (412; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

54
Total EPA violations on record
0%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
412
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
2
County
Worcester
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
51
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MR 6 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2013
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 2 2014
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2014
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2014
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 2 2014
Styrene MR 2 2014
Toluene MR 2 2014
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2014
Xylenes, Total MR 2 2014
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 2 2014
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 2 2014
Carbon tetrachloride MR 2 2014
Tetrachloroethylene MR 2 2014
Vinyl chloride MR 2 2014
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 2 2014
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2014
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 2 2014
Benzene MR 2 2014
CHLOROBENZENE MR 2 2014
Ethylbenzene MR 2 2014
Trichloroethylene MR 2 2014
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Dcr Douglas State Forest has 54 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 54), 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)

54 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Dcr Douglas State Forest

0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MA2077006.

EPA SDWIS · PWS MA2077006 MA primacy agency

Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program

Nationwide peers

54 violations · 412 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.

4 peers

What to do with Dcr Douglas State Forest

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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