VAN HORNESVILLE WATER DISTRICT

Water Quality Snapshot: VAN HORNESVILLE WATER DISTRICT

VAN HORNESVILLE WATER DISTRICT is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 72 residents in VAN HORNESVILLE, New York (Herkimer County) through 33 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 848 total violations for this system , of which 31 (4%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 780 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Coliform (TCR), recorded in 23 violations (MCL, health-based). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across New York, EPA tracks 8,098 public water systems serving 19,294,951 people, with 552,003 cumulative violations and 26,817 health-based violations on record. About 94% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 68.2 violations. VAN HORNESVILLE WATER DISTRICT's 848 violations sit above the New York average. Statewide, 129 of 332 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (38.9%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.