Community Water System · PWS NY2202348
Watertown Town WD 1 & 2
Operator location Watertown, New York - 86% of 7 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 600 served per SDWIS.
- 600
- People served (this PWS)
- 7
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Watertown Town WD 1 & 2 standing, low SDWIS violation third
86% of 7 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #26,432 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Watertown Town WD 1 & 2 is in the lower third by violation count (7; 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 smaller (600; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #26,432 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #1,048 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 7
- Total EPA violations on record
- 86%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 142
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 0
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 3 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 3 | 2021 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Watertown Town WD 1 & 2 has 7 recorded EPA violations, 13% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 85% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 7), and it ranks #26,432 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)
7 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 85% 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 Watertown Town WD 1 & 2
6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for NY2202348.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · New York State Department of Health, Public Water Systems
Nationwide peers
7 violations · 600 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Watertown Town WD 1 & 2
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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