Community Water System · PWS NY5503015
Nys Office of Children & Family Services
Operator location Highland, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 470 people served; 25 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 470
- People served (this PWS)
- 25
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Nys Office of Children & Family Services standing, mid SDWIS violation third
470 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 16% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Nys Office of Children & Family Services lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (470; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 16% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 25
- Total EPA violations on record
- 16%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 470
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- State
- Connections
- 17
- County
- Ulster
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 12
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 9 | 2004 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2018 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Nys Office of Children & Family Services has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 16% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 25), 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)
25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% 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 Nys Office of Children & Family Services
EPA SDWIS lists 470 people served and 17 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
25 violations · 470 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 Nys Office of Children & Family Services
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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