Community Water System · PWS MD0070029
Town of Charlestown
Operator location Willards, Maryland - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,791 people served; 49 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,791
- People served (this PWS)
- 49
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Town of Charlestown standing, mid SDWIS violation third
3,791 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,186 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Town of Charlestown lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,791; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,186 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #72 of 437
- Population · MD
- 49
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- 770
- County
- Cecil
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 45
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2021 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2010 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 6 | 2013 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2013 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2012 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Town of Charlestown has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 49), and it ranks #9,186 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)
49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Town of Charlestown
EPA SDWIS lists 3,791 people served and 770 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
49 violations · 3,791 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 Town of Charlestown
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
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