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Community Water System · PWS VT0005151

Smugglers Notch Water System

Operator location Jeffersonville, Vermont - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 196 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,960 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

2,960
People served (this PWS)
196
EPA violations (this PWS)
19
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Smugglers Notch Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third

196 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,777 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Smugglers Notch Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (196), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,960 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,777 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#40 of 185
Population · VT
196
Total EPA violations on record
10%
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
638
County
Lamoille
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
19
Monitoring Violations
172
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 13 2024
TTHM MR 13 2024
TTHM MCL 10 2016
CYANIDE MR 6 2010
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 6 2019
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 6 2019
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 6 2019
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 6 2019
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 6 2019
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 6 2019
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 6 2019
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 6 2019
Tetrachloroethylene MR 6 2019
Benzene MR 6 2019
Ethylbenzene MR 6 2019
Toluene MR 6 2019
Styrene MR 6 2019
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 6 2019
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 6 2019
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 6 2020
Vinyl chloride MR 6 2019
Xylenes, Total MR 6 2019
CHLOROBENZENE MR 6 2019
Trichloroethylene MR 6 2019
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 6 2019
Carbon tetrachloride MR 6 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 5 2016
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 1991
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 1994
Chlorine MR 2 2009

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Smugglers Notch Water System has 196 recorded EPA violations, 85% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 15% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 196), and it ranks #10,777 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)

196 Higher than most more violations than 85% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Smugglers Notch Water System

196 violations on record for VT0005151; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

196 violations · 2,960 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Smugglers Notch Water System

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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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