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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MD1060004

B.t.r. Hampstead (Black and Decker)

Operator location Towson, Maryland - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 472 people served; 46 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

472
People served (this PWS)
46
EPA violations (this PWS)
1
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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B.t.r. Hampstead (Black and Decker) standing, mid SDWIS violation third

472 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

B.t.r. Hampstead (Black and Decker) lands in the middle third by violation volume (46), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (472; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

46
Total EPA violations on record
2%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
472
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
Carroll
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
44
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 2 2007
Carbon tetrachloride MR 2 2007
Trichloroethylene MR 2 2007
Tetrachloroethylene MR 2 2007
Styrene MR 2 2007
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 2 2007
Vinyl chloride MR 2 2007
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2007
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2007
Xylenes, Total MR 2 2007
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2007
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2007
Ethylbenzene MR 2 2007
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 1994
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 2 2007
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2007
Benzene MR 2 2007
CHLOROBENZENE MR 2 2007
Toluene MR 2 2007
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 2 2007
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 2 2007
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 2 2007
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 1 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 1 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

B.t.r. Hampstead (Black and Decker) has 46 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 46), 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)

46 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 B.t.r. Hampstead (Black and Decker)

EPA SDWIS lists 472 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

46 violations · 472 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with B.t.r. Hampstead

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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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