Community Water System · PWS VT0005106
Canaan Fire District 1
Operator location Canaan, Vermont - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 970 people served; 243 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 970
- People served (this PWS)
- 243
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 10
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Canaan Fire District 1 standing, high SDWIS violation third
970 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #20,153 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Canaan Fire District 1 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (243), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (970; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,153 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #95 of 185
- Population · VT
- 243
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- 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
- 286
- County
- Essex
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 10
- Monitoring Violations
- 219
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 30 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 10 | 2003 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2015 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2015 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Endrin | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Picloram | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| LASSO | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Chlordane | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| Simazine | MR | 6 | 2011 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 6 | 2011 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Canaan Fire District 1 has 243 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 243), and it ranks #20,153 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)
243 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Canaan Fire District 1
EPA SDWIS lists 970 people served and 286 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
243 violations · 970 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 Canaan Fire District 1
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