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Community Water System · PWS PA7670138

James Dorwart Apts

Operator location Etters, Pennsylvania - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 226 people served; 52 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

226
People served (this PWS)
52
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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James Dorwart Apts standing, mid SDWIS violation third

226 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

James Dorwart Apts lands in the middle third by violation volume (52), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (226; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

52
Total EPA violations on record
10%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
226
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
114
County
York
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
16
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 30 2024
Chlorine MR 9 2019
Groundwater Rule MR 6 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 5 2001
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 2006
Public Notice Other 1 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

James Dorwart Apts has 52 recorded EPA violations, 57% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 42% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 52), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

52 Around the middle fewer violations than 42% 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 James Dorwart Apts

EPA SDWIS lists 226 people served and 114 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Pennsylvania DEP, Bureau of Safe Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

52 violations · 226 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with James Dorwart Apts

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Pennsylvania compares on the same EPA violation measures. Pennsylvania systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater