Community Water System · PWS RI2980476
Dowling Village
Operator location Warwick, Rhode Island - 11% of 55 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,720 served per SDWIS.
- 2,720
- People served (this PWS)
- 55
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Dowling Village standing, mid SDWIS violation third
11% of 55 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,323 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Dowling Village lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,720 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,323 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #34 of 73
- Population · RI
- 55
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- 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
- 16
- County
- Providence
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 37
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 9 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 6 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 6 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 3 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dowling Village has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 55), and it ranks #11,323 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)
55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Dowling Village
6 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for RI2980476.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
55 violations · 2,720 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Dowling Village
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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