Community Water System · PWS VT0005031
Passumpsic Fire District 1
Operator location St Johnsbury, Vermont - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 140 people served; 357 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 140
- People served (this PWS)
- 357
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 41
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Passumpsic Fire District 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third
140 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Passumpsic Fire District 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (357), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (140; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 357
- Total EPA violations on record
- 11%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 140
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 53
- County
- Caledonia
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 38
- Monitoring Violations
- 203
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 81 | 2013 |
| Chlorine | MR | 50 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 26 | 2024 |
| TTHM | MCL | 25 | 2010 |
| TTHM | MR | 23 | 2010 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 23 | 2010 |
| Public Notice | Other | 15 | 2010 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 13 | 2013 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2025 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Passumpsic Fire District 1 has 357 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (41 of 357), 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)
357 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Passumpsic Fire District 1
EPA SDWIS lists 140 people served and 53 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
357 violations · 140 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.
What to do with Passumpsic Fire District 1
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