Community Water System · PWS MD0200005
Town of Oxford
Operator location Oxford, Maryland - 40% of 40 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 726 served per SDWIS.
- 726
- People served (this PWS)
- 40
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Town of Oxford standing, mid SDWIS violation third
40% of 40 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 40% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #23,837 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Town of Oxford lands in the middle third by violation volume (40), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (726; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 40% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,837 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #279 of 437
- Population · MD
- 40
- Total EPA violations on record
- 40%
- 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
- 525
- County
- Talbot
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 16
- Monitoring Violations
- 21
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 12 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2010 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2003 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2023 |
| Nitrite | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1995 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2007 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Town of Oxford has 40 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 49% carry more. 40% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 40), and it ranks #23,837 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)
40 Around the middle fewer violations than 49% 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 Oxford
16 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD0200005.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
40 violations · 726 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 smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Town of Oxford
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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