Community Water System · PWS NY1511360
Drapers Acres
Operator location Lake Placid, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 240 people served; 33 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 240
- People served (this PWS)
- 33
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Drapers Acres standing, mid SDWIS violation third
240 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Drapers Acres lands in the middle third by violation volume (33), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (240; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 33
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 240
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 60
- County
- Essex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 29
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 9 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | TT | 4 | 2010 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Drapers Acres has 33 recorded EPA violations, 45% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 54% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 33), 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)
33 Lower than most fewer violations than 54% 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 Drapers Acres
EPA SDWIS lists 240 people served and 60 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
33 violations · 240 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.
What to do with Drapers Acres
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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.