Community Water System · PWS MA3205001
Byfield Water District
Operator location Byfield, Massachusetts - 14% of 35 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 2,228 served per SDWIS.
- 2,228
- People served (this PWS)
- 35
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Byfield Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
14% of 35 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #12,763 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Byfield Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,228 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,763 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #289 of 418
- Population · MA
- 35
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- 857
- County
- Essex
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 26
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 5 | 1997 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 2014 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1997 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Byfield Water District has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 35), and it ranks #12,763 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)
35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% 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 Byfield Water District
5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MA3205001.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · MassDEP, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
35 violations · 2,228 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Byfield Water District
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