Community Water System · PWS VT0005315
Bethel Water Dept
Operator location Bethel, Vermont - 34% of 88 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,929 served per SDWIS.
- 1,929
- People served (this PWS)
- 88
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 30
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bethel Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
34% of 88 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 34% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,935 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bethel Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (88), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,929 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 34% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,935 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #57 of 185
- Population · VT
- 88
- Total EPA violations on record
- 34%
- 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
- 350
- County
- Windsor
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 30
- Monitoring Violations
- 47
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 33 | 2008 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 30 | 2011 |
| Nitrate | MR | 14 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 5 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bethel Water Dept has 88 recorded EPA violations, 70% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 29% carry more. 34% of this system's own violations are health-based (30 of 88), and it ranks #13,935 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)
88 Around the middle fewer violations than 29% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Bethel Water Dept
30 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for VT0005315.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
88 violations · 1,929 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Bethel Water Dept
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