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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS MD1120029

North Harford High School

Operator location Bel Air, Maryland - 47% of 15 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,346 served per SDWIS.

1,346
People served (this PWS)
15
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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North Harford High School standing, low SDWIS violation third

47% of 15 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 47% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,888 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

North Harford High School is in the lower third by violation count (15; 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 mid-pack at 1,346 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 47% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,888 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#153 of 437
Population · MD
15
Total EPA violations on record
47%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
1
County
Harford
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
8
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 5 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 1993
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 3 2019
Lead and Copper Rule TT 2 1998

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

North Harford High School has 15 recorded EPA violations, 25% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 74% carry more. 47% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 15), and it ranks #16,888 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)

15 Lower than most fewer violations than 74% 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 North Harford High School

7 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for MD1120029.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

15 violations · 1,346 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with North Harford High School

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