Community Water System · PWS NY5730106
Salem Water Department
Operator location Salem, New York - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 915 people served; 53 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 915
- People served (this PWS)
- 53
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Salem Water Department standing, mid SDWIS violation third
915 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 2% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,787 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Salem Water Department lands in the middle third by violation volume (53), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (915; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 2% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,787 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #799 of 1,204
- Population · NY
- 53
- Total EPA violations on record
- 2%
- 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
- 314
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 3
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Lead | TT | 1 | 2004 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Salem Water Department has 53 recorded EPA violations, 58% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 41% carry more. 2% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 53), and it ranks #20,787 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)
53 Around the middle fewer violations than 41% 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 Salem Water Department
EPA SDWIS lists 915 people served and 314 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
53 violations · 915 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 Salem Water Department
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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