Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NY1011778
Lake Taghkanic State Park
Operator location Ancram,, New York - 2% of 60 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,500 served per SDWIS.
- 2,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 60
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Lake Taghkanic State Park standing, mid SDWIS violation third
2% of 60 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,939 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Lake Taghkanic State Park lands in the middle third by violation volume (60), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,939 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #408 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 60
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- State
- Connections
- 2
- County
- Columbia
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 29
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 17 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 1 | 1998 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Lake Taghkanic State Park has 60 recorded EPA violations, 61% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 38% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 60), and it ranks #11,939 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)
60 Around the middle fewer violations than 38% 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 Lake Taghkanic State Park
1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NY1011778.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems
Nationwide peers
60 violations · 2,500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Lake Taghkanic State Park
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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