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Community Water System · PWS MD0060013

Town of Union Bridge

Operator location Union Bridge, Maryland - 88% of 26 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 997 served per SDWIS.

997
People served (this PWS)
26
EPA violations (this PWS)
23
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Union Bridge standing, mid SDWIS violation third

88% of 26 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 88% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,877 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Town of Union Bridge lands in the middle third by violation volume (26), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (997; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 88% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,877 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#213 of 437
Population · MD
26
Total EPA violations on record
88%
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
300
County
Carroll
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
7
Monitoring Violations
0
Treatment Tech Violations
16

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 16 1999
Nitrate MCL 7 1994
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Union Bridge has 26 recorded EPA violations, 38% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 61% carry more. 88% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 26), and it ranks #19,877 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)

26 Lower than most fewer violations than 61% 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 Town of Union Bridge

23 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD0060013.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

26 violations · 997 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

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Town of Union Bridge

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

  • See how every tracked system in Maryland compares on the same EPA violation measures. Maryland systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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