Community Water System · PWS OH2868112
Geauga County Services Center PWS
Operator location Chardon, Ohio - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 570 people served; 69 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 570
- People served (this PWS)
- 69
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Geauga County Services Center PWS standing, mid SDWIS violation third
570 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #27,053 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Geauga County Services Center PWS lands in the middle third by violation volume (69), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (570; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #27,053 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #861 of 931
- Population · OH
- 69
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 18
- County
- Geauga
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 67
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2001 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Benzene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Styrene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Toluene | MR | 3 | 2012 |
| Mercury | MCL | 2 | 2001 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Geauga County Services Center PWS has 69 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 69), and it ranks #27,053 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)
69 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% 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 Geauga County Services Center PWS
EPA SDWIS lists 570 people served and 18 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Ohio EPA, Division of Drinking and Ground Waters
Nationwide peers
69 violations · 570 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 Geauga County Services Center PWS
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