Community Water System · PWS MD0200006
Town of St. Michaels
Operator location St Michaels, Maryland - 35% of 88 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,650 served per SDWIS.
- 2,650
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 31
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Town of St. Michaels standing, high SDWIS violation third
35% of 88 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 35% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,472 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Town of St. Michaels sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,650 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 35% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,472 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #85 of 437
- Population · MD
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 35%
- 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
- 1,300
- County
- Talbot
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 31
- Monitoring Violations
- 48
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 31 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 10 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2021 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 2018 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Town of St. Michaels has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 35% of this system's own violations are health-based (31 of 88), and it ranks #11,472 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)
88 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% 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 St. Michaels
31 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD0200006.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
88 violations · 2,650 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 St. Michaels
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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