CORNELL UNIVERSITY: EPA violation history, explained

CORNELL UNIVERSITY has a health-based violation on record, but none in the last five years - an older issue, not necessarily a current one. It serves 31,581 people through 239 service connections.

How this compares nationally

7 total violations and 3 health-based ones put CORNELL UNIVERSITY at the 58th percentile nationally for violation burden, rank 5,420 of 12,903.

Against the NY average

Among the 443 NY systems in this dataset, the average is 4.1 health-based violations - CORNELL UNIVERSITY's 3 is at or below that. The clean-record guide covers what a comparison like this can hide.

Most recent violation on record

CORNELL UNIVERSITY's most recent violation on record is dated 2023-01-04, with the most recent health-based one dated 2007-01-10. Last reported to EPA: 06/25/2026.

The concern categories on record

CORNELL UNIVERSITY's flagged contaminants and rule violations, grouped by what they actually mean for a filter choice rather than left as EPA's raw code list:

• Microbial contamination / treatment technique - flagged from: Coliform (TCR)
• Disinfection byproducts - flagged from: Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5)

The most severe category on record is microbial contamination / treatment technique, which points toward a microbial-class filter if you want to address it directly.

What CORNELL UNIVERSITY's record does not cover

This is what CORNELL UNIVERSITY reported to its state primacy agency and EPA under the Safe Drinking Water Act - real regulatory record, not a lab test of your specific tap. Between the utility's meter and CORNELL UNIVERSITY's customers' taps is household plumbing, invisible to a system-level record ranked 5,420th of 12,903 by violation count. The guide to what this data misses covers that gap.