Community Water System · PWS NY1500294
Upper Jay WD
Operator location Ausable Forks, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 234 people served; 98 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 234
- People served (this PWS)
- 98
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 16
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Upper Jay WD standing, high SDWIS violation third
234 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Upper Jay WD sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (98), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (234; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 98
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 234
- 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
- 111
- County
- Essex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 77
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 24 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 11 | 2003 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Cadmium | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Nickel | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 4 | 2004 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 3 | 2012 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| TTHM | MCL | 2 | 1988 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Upper Jay WD has 98 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (16 of 98), 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)
98 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Upper Jay WD
EPA SDWIS lists 234 people served and 111 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
98 violations · 234 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.
What to do with Upper Jay WD
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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