Community Water System · PWS MD0110008
Town of Oakland
Operator location Oakland, Maryland - 90% of 187 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,850 served per SDWIS.
- 1,850
- People served (this PWS)
- 187
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 169
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Town of Oakland standing, high SDWIS violation third
90% of 187 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 90% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,222 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Town of Oakland sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (187), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,850 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 90% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,222 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #119 of 437
- Population · MD
- 187
- Total EPA violations on record
- 90%
- 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
- 1,150
- County
- Garrett
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 169
- Monitoring Violations
- 10
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 99 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 70 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Cryptosporidium | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 3 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Town of Oakland has 187 recorded EPA violations, 84% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 16% carry more. 90% of this system's own violations are health-based (169 of 187), and it ranks #14,222 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)
187 Higher than most more violations than 84% 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 Oakland
169 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD0110008.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
187 violations · 1,850 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Town of Oakland
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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