Community Water System · PWS VT0005020
Dorset Fire District 1
Operator location Dorset, Vermont - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 530 people served; 130 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 530
- People served (this PWS) Smaller third of systems
- 130
- EPA violations (this PWS) Upper third of systems
- 27
- Health-based (this PWS) Middle third by health-based share
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS) No UCMR5 result
Dorset Fire District 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third
530 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #27,951 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Dorset Fire District 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (130), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (530; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #27,951 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #165 of 185
- Population · VT
- 130
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
Based on EPA SDWIS violation history and UCMR5 PFAS testing only, not water taste, odor, infrastructure age, or contaminants outside the federally tracked set.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 215
- County
- Bennington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 27
- Monitoring Violations
- 86
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 56 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 27 | 2012 |
| Chlorine | MR | 12 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 11 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 1996 |
| TTHM | MR | 5 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 5 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Dorset Fire District 1 has 130 recorded EPA violations, 78% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 21% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 130), and it ranks #27,951 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)
130 Higher than most more violations than 78% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more water systems. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.
Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
How many violations vs. how serious, among peer systems
Dorset Fire District 1 plotted against 29 peer public water systems (500+ people served), by total violation count (x) and the share of those violations that are health-based (y). The crosshair sits at this sample's own median on each axis. A high violation count does not automatically mean a serious record: most monitoring and reporting violations are minor, not health-based.
Violation volume vs. health-based share
Population served record for Dorset Fire District 1
EPA SDWIS lists 530 people served and 215 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
130 violations · 530 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Dorset Fire District 1
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Vermont compares on the same EPA violation measures. Vermont systems
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