Community Water System · PWS WA5307850
Boston Harbor
Operator location Olympia, Washington - 18% of 62 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,153 served per SDWIS.
- 1,153
- People served (this PWS)
- 62
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 11
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Boston Harbor standing, mid SDWIS violation third
18% of 62 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 18% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #18,233 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Boston Harbor lands in the middle third by violation volume (62), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,153 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 18% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,233 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #479 of 766
- Population · WA
- 62
- Total EPA violations on record
- 18%
- 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
- 278
- County
- Thurston
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 11
- Monitoring Violations
- 47
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2003 |
| TTHM | MCL | 10 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 6 | 1998 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2016 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 1 | 2022 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Boston Harbor has 62 recorded EPA violations, 62% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 18% of this system's own violations are health-based (11 of 62), and it ranks #18,233 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)
62 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Boston Harbor
11 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WA5307850.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
62 violations · 1,153 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
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 Boston Harbor
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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