Community Water System · PWS NY0200320
Houghton Water District
Operator location Caneadea, New York - 81% of 85 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,000 served per SDWIS.
- 2,000
- People served (this PWS)
- 85
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 69
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Houghton Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
81% 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 81% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,621 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Houghton Water District 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 2,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 81% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,621 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #478 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 85
- Total EPA violations on record
- 81%
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 250
- County
- Allegany
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 69
- Monitoring Violations
- 10
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 69 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2012 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2007 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 2 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Houghton Water District has 85 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 30% carry more. 81% of this system's own violations are health-based (69 of 85), and it ranks #13,621 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 Houghton Water District
69 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NY0200320.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems
Nationwide peers
85 violations · 2,000 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Houghton Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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