Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS NY5006501
The Y at Watson Woods
Operator location Painted Post, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 285 people served; 72 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 285
- People served (this PWS)
- 72
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
The Y at Watson Woods standing, mid SDWIS violation third
285 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
The Y at Watson Woods lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (285; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 72
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 285
- 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
- Transient Non-Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 4
- County
- Steuben
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 53
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 15 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2012 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Nickel | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
The Y at Watson Woods has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 72), 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)
72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 The Y at Watson Woods
EPA SDWIS lists 285 people served and 4 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
72 violations · 285 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 The Y at Watson Woods
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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