Community Water System · PWS NY1313839
Bard College
New York - 0% of 10 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 1,400 served per SDWIS.
- 1,400
- People served (this PWS)
- 10
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 0
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bard College standing, low SDWIS violation third
0% of 10 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #16,570 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bard College is in the lower third by violation count (10; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 1,400 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,570 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #614 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 10
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 83
- County
- Dutchess
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bard College has 10 recorded EPA violations, 18% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 81% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (0 of 10), and it ranks #16,570 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)
10 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 81% 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 Bard College
0 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NY1313839.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems
Nationwide peers
10 violations · 1,400 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
- Eastern Shawnee EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems 10violations
- Acoma Sky City Cultural Center EPA Region 6 — Tribal Water Systems 10violations
- New Town, City Of EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems 10violations
- Running Creek Casino Water System (Habematolel) EPA Region 9 — Tribal Water Systems 10violations
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bard College
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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