Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NY1602611
Salmon River Central School
Operator location Fort Covington, New York - 27% of 41 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,600 served per SDWIS.
- 1,600
- People served (this PWS)
- 41
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Salmon River Central School standing, mid SDWIS violation third
27% of 41 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 27% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #15,373 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salmon River Central School lands in the middle third by violation volume (41), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,600 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 27% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,373 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #552 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 41
- Total EPA violations on record
- 27%
- 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
- Non-Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 1
- County
- Franklin
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 23
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 11
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrite | MR | 9 | 2000 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 7 | 2023 |
| Lead | TT | 6 | 2007 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 1999 |
| COPPER, FREE | TT | 5 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2007 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2007 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salmon River Central School has 41 recorded EPA violations, 51% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 27% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 41), and it ranks #15,373 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)
41 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Salmon River Central School
11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NY1602611.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems
Nationwide peers
41 violations · 1,600 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 Salmon River Central School
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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