WORCESTER FIRE DISTRICT 1

Water Quality Snapshot: WORCESTER FIRE DISTRICT 1

WORCESTER FIRE DISTRICT 1 is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 350 residents in WORCESTER, Vermont (Washington County) through 70 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 471 total violations for this system , of which 6 (1%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 450 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is BHC-GAMMA, recorded in 11 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Vermont, EPA tracks 1,357 public water systems serving 646,999 people, with 153,729 cumulative violations and 16,917 health-based violations on record. About 93% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 113.3 violations. WORCESTER FIRE DISTRICT 1's 471 violations sit above the Vermont average. Statewide, 3 of 37 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (8.1%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.