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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MD1041184

Cardinal Hickey Academy

Operator location Owings, Maryland - 67% of 12 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 380 served per SDWIS.

380
People served (this PWS)
12
EPA violations (this PWS)
8
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cardinal Hickey Academy standing, low SDWIS violation third

67% of 12 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 67% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Cardinal Hickey Academy is in the lower third by violation count (12; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (380; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 67% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

12
Total EPA violations on record
67%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
380
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Calvert
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
8
Monitoring Violations
4
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 8 2013
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2008
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cardinal Hickey Academy has 12 recorded EPA violations, 21% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 78% carry more. 67% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 12), 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)

12 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 78% 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 Cardinal Hickey Academy

8 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD1041184.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

12 violations · 380 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Cardinal Hickey Academy

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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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