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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MD1070047

W.l. Gore at Fair Hill

Operator location Oxford, Maryland - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 200 people served; 60 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

200
People served (this PWS)
60
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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W.l. Gore at Fair Hill standing, mid SDWIS violation third

200 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

W.l. Gore at Fair Hill lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (200; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

60
Total EPA violations on record
7%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
200
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
Cecil
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
56
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 17 2011
Lead and Copper Rule MR 9 2013
Lead and Copper Rule TT 4 1998
Thallium, Total MR 3 1996
Selenium MR 3 1996
Barium MR 3 1996
Cadmium MR 3 1996
Mercury MR 3 1996
Beryllium, Total MR 3 1996
Chromium MR 3 1996
Nickel MR 3 1996
Antimony, Total MR 3 1996
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2016

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

W.l. Gore at Fair Hill has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 60), 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)

60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 W.l. Gore at Fair Hill

EPA SDWIS lists 200 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

60 violations · 200 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.

4 peers

What to do with W.l. Gore at Fair Hill

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