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Community Water System · PWS ND5100138

Burlington City Of

Operator location Burlington, North Dakota - 85% of 85 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,060 served per SDWIS.

1,060
People served (this PWS)
85
EPA violations (this PWS)
72
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Burlington City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

85% of 85 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 85% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,904 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Burlington City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (85), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,060 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 85% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#18,904 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#82 of 131
Population · ND
85
Total EPA violations on record
85%
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
350
County
Ward
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
72
Monitoring Violations
9
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 49 2007
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 23 2006
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2007
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2002
Public Notice Other 3 2006
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2013

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Burlington City Of has 85 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 85% of this system's own violations are health-based (72 of 85), and it ranks #18,904 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)

85 Around the middle fewer violations than 30% 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 Burlington City Of

72 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ND5100138.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

85 violations · 1,060 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Burlington City Of

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in North Dakota compares on the same EPA violation measures. North Dakota 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