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Community Water System · PWS MD0070004

Town of Cecilton

Operator location Cecilton, Maryland - 23% of 39 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 477 served per SDWIS.

477
People served (this PWS)
39
EPA violations (this PWS)
9
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Cecilton standing, mid SDWIS violation third

23% of 39 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 23% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Town of Cecilton lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (477; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 23% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

39
Total EPA violations on record
23%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
477
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
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
291
County
Cecil
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
21
Treatment Tech Violations
9

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MR 11 2024
Lead and Copper Rule TT 9 2021
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 8 2021
Lead and Copper Rule MR 6 2025
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Cecilton has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 23% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 39), 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)

39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 Cecilton

9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD0070004.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

39 violations · 477 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Town of Cecilton

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