Community Water System · PWS NY5600102
Chestertown Water District
Operator location Chestertown, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 750 people served; 56 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 750
- People served (this PWS)
- 56
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Chestertown Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
750 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,464 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Chestertown Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (56), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (750; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,464 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #943 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 56
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- 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
- 298
- County
- Warren
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 3
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 9
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 2014 |
| COPPER, FREE | TT | 6 | 2006 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 5 | 2008 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2023 |
| Lead | TT | 3 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 3 | 2004 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2003 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Chestertown Water District has 56 recorded EPA violations, 60% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 56), and it ranks #23,464 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)
56 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Chestertown Water District
EPA SDWIS lists 750 people served and 298 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
56 violations · 750 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Chestertown Water District
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
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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