Community Water System · PWS NY4317681
Bear Mountain Water Supply
Operator location Bear Mountain, New York - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,564 people served; 216 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 3,564
- People served (this PWS)
- 216
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bear Mountain Water Supply standing, high SDWIS violation third
3,564 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,503 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bear Mountain Water Supply sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (216), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (3,564; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,503 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #309 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 216
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- 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
- State
- Connections
- 25
- County
- Orange
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 161
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 32
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 24 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 10 | 2004 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 8 | 2004 |
| Arsenic | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Fluoride | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Mercury | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Nickel | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Chromium | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Cadmium | MR | 6 | 2020 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 4 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 2 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2017 |
| Endrin | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Simazine | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Picloram | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 2 | 2015 |
| LASSO | MR | 2 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bear Mountain Water Supply has 216 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 216), and it ranks #9,503 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)
216 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Bear Mountain Water Supply
EPA SDWIS lists 3,564 people served and 25 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
216 violations · 3,564 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bear Mountain Water Supply
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