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Community Water System · PWS NE3114707

Salem, Village Of

Operator location Salem, Nebraska - 88% of 49 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 160 served per SDWIS.

160
People served (this PWS)
49
EPA violations (this PWS)
43
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Salem, Village Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

88% of 49 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 88% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Salem, Village Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (49), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (160; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 88% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

49
Total EPA violations on record
88%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
160
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
Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
59
County
Richardson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
43
Monitoring Violations
1
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 25 2001
Tetrachloroethylene MCL 18 1996
Coliform (TCR) Other 2 1999
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 1999
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1993

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Salem, Village Of has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 88% of this system's own violations are health-based (43 of 49), 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)

49 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Salem, Village Of

43 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NE3114707.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

49 violations · 160 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Salem, Village Of

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

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