Community Water System · PWS OH4500812
Licking County Harbor Hills PWS
Operator location Buckeye Lake, Ohio - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,415 people served; 28 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,415
- People served (this PWS)
- 28
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Licking County Harbor Hills PWS standing, mid SDWIS violation third
3,415 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,780 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Licking County Harbor Hills PWS lands in the middle third by violation volume (28), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,415; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,780 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #317 of 931
- Population · OH
- 28
- Total EPA violations on record
- 14%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 598
- County
- Licking
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 20
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 1997 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2011 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1989 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Licking County Harbor Hills PWS has 28 recorded EPA violations, 40% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 59% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 28), and it ranks #9,780 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)
28 Lower than most fewer violations than 59% 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 Licking County Harbor Hills PWS
EPA SDWIS lists 3,415 people served and 598 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
28 violations · 3,415 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 similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Licking County Harbor Hills PWS
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