Community Water System · PWS PA6330013
Sykesville Borough
Operator location Sykesville, Pennsylvania - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 273 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,500 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,500
- People served (this PWS)
- 273
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 52
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sykesville Borough standing, high SDWIS violation third
273 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,028 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sykesville Borough sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (273), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,500 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,028 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #626 of 1,340
- Population · PA
- 273
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- 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
- 592
- County
- Jefferson
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 49
- Monitoring Violations
- 189
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 97 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 49 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 29 | 2023 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 23 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 21 | 2018 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2016 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 12 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 10 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2011 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2021 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 3 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sykesville Borough has 273 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (52 of 273), and it ranks #16,028 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)
273 Higher than most more violations than 90% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Sykesville Borough
273 violations on record for PA6330013; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
273 violations · 1,500 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Sykesville Borough
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