Community Water System · PWS MA3092000
Essex Water Dept.
Operator location Essex, Massachusetts - 0% of 43 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 3,675 served per SDWIS.
- 3,675
- People served (this PWS)
- 43
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Essex Water Dept. standing, mid SDWIS violation third
0% of 43 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%). Population rank #9,342 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Essex Water Dept. lands in the middle third by violation volume (43), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,675; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. 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.
- #9,342 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #259 of 418
- Population · MA
- 43
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 1,124
- County
- Essex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 38
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2009 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Tritium | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| 53-IODINE-131 | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,3,7,8-TCDD | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| 38-STRONTIUM-90 | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Essex Water Dept. has 43 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 47% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 43), and it ranks #9,342 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)
43 Around the middle fewer violations than 47% 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 Essex Water Dept.
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 MA3092000.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
43 violations · 3,675 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Essex Water Dept.
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