Community Water System · PWS VT0005253
Birchwood Park
Operator location Barre, Vermont - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 30 people served; 426 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 30
- People served (this PWS)
- 426
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 32
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Birchwood Park standing, high SDWIS violation third
30 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Birchwood Park sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (426), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (30; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 426
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 30
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 14
- County
- Washington
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 31
- Monitoring Violations
- 354
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 41 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 31 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 21 | 2018 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 14 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2020 |
| Endrin | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Atrazine | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| LASSO | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| Chlordane | MR | 6 | 2008 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Toluene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 6 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Birchwood Park has 426 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (32 of 426), 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)
426 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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 Birchwood Park
EPA SDWIS lists 30 people served and 14 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
426 violations · 30 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 Birchwood Park
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