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Community Water System · PWS NH1053020

Hemlock Haven

Operator location Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 49% of 49 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 207 served per SDWIS.

207
People served (this PWS)
49
EPA violations (this PWS)
24
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hemlock Haven standing, mid SDWIS violation third

49% 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 49% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Hemlock Haven 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 (207; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 49% - 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
49%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
207
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
Private
Connections
83
County
Rockingham
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
24
Monitoring Violations
21
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 20 1991
Nitrate MR 10 1995
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2005
Revised Total Coliform Rule MCL 4 2023

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hemlock Haven has 49 recorded EPA violations, 56% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 49% of this system's own violations are health-based (24 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

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Hemlock Haven

24 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NH1053020.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

49 violations · 207 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Hemlock Haven

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

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