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Community Water System · PWS NE3116102

Hay Springs, City Of

Operator location Hay Springs, Nebraska - 65% of 31 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 614 served per SDWIS.

614
People served (this PWS)
31
EPA violations (this PWS)
20
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hay Springs, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

65% of 31 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 65% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #25,899 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Hay Springs, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (31), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (614; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 65% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#25,899 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#209 of 250
Population · NE
31
Total EPA violations on record
65%
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
320
County
Sheridan
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
20
Monitoring Violations
8
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 20 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2015
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 3 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hay Springs, City Of has 31 recorded EPA violations, 43% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 56% carry more. 65% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 31), and it ranks #25,899 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)

31 Lower than most fewer violations than 56% 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 Hay Springs, City Of

20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NE3116102.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

31 violations · 614 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Hay Springs, City 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
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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