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Community Water System · PWS 083090051

Poplar, City Of

Operator location Poplar, EPA Region 8 — Tribal Water Systems - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations) with 18 EPA violations; surface water source; 3,025 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,025
People served (this PWS)
18
EPA violations (this PWS)
2
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Poplar, City Of standing, low SDWIS violation third

18 EPA SDWIS violations on record - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,532 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Poplar, City Of is in the lower third by violation count (18; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 3,025 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,532 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#13 of 55
Population · 08
18
Total EPA violations on record
11%
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
Native American
Connections
929
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
15
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MR 4 2024
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 4 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 2 2022
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 2 2014
Asbestos MR 1 2020
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2025
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Poplar, City Of has 18 recorded EPA violations, 29% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 70% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 18), and it ranks #10,532 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)

18 Lower than most fewer violations than 70% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Poplar, City Of

18 violations on record for 083090051; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

18 violations · 3,025 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers

Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Poplar, City Of

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater