Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5, NY Water Quality

Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5: EPA violation history, explained

Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5's record against the rest of the country

0 total violations and 0 health-based ones put Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5 at the 0th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 12,859 of 12,903.

Against the NY average

Among the 452 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.3 health-based violations - Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5's 0 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Why "no violations" needs a caveat here

Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5 serves 2,600 people. EPA requires smaller systems to test less often than large ones, so a clean record here is real but weaker evidence than the same record on a system serving hundreds of thousands - fewer tests means fewer chances to catch a problem. See the guide to reading a clean record for what that does and does not tell you.

What Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5's record does not cover

Everything on this page is Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5's own reported record under the Safe Drinking Water Act - a regulatory filing, not a sample of your tap. This record - 0 health-based violations on file for Cape Vincent Town Wd 1 & 5 - stops at the meter and cannot see household plumbing on the other side of it. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.