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Hinsdale Town Water District

Operator location Hinsdale, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 350 people served; 64 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

350
People served (this PWS)
64
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Hinsdale Town Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third

350 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Hinsdale Town Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (64), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

64
Total EPA violations on record
8%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
350
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
98
County
Cattaraugus
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
54
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Radium-228 MR 6 2008
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MCL 5 1990
TTHM MR 4 2021
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2021
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 2 2024
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2024
Vinyl chloride MR 2 2024
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 2 2024
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 2 2024
Carbon tetrachloride MR 2 2024
Toluene MR 2 2024
Ethylbenzene MR 2 2024
Styrene MR 2 2024
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 2 2024
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 2 2024
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2024
Tetrachloroethylene MR 2 2024
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2024
Benzene MR 2 2024
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2024
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2024
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 2 2024
CHLOROBENZENE MR 2 2024
Trichloroethylene MR 2 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Hinsdale Town Water District has 64 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 64), 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)

64 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Hinsdale Town Water District

EPA SDWIS lists 350 people served and 98 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems

Nationwide peers

64 violations · 350 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Hinsdale Town Water District

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

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