Howonquet Community(Smith River)

Water Quality Snapshot: Howonquet Community(Smith River)

Howonquet Community(Smith River) is a native american-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 220 residents in Smith River, 09 through 54 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 256 total violations for this system , of which 11 (4%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 140 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 42 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across 09, EPA tracks 323 public water systems serving 555,721 people, with 48,296 cumulative violations and 3,354 health-based violations on record. About 97% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 149.5 violations. Howonquet Community(Smith River)'s 256 violations sit above the 09 average. Statewide, 30 of 41 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (73.2%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.