Community Water System · PWS AR0000065
Valley Springs Waterworks
Operator location Valley Springs, Arkansas - 30% of 44 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 3,400 served per SDWIS.
- 3,400
- People served (this PWS)
- 44
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Valley Springs Waterworks standing, mid SDWIS violation third
30% of 44 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 30% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #9,798 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Valley Springs Waterworks lands in the middle third by violation volume (44), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,400; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 30% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,798 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #164 of 514
- Population · AR
- 44
- Total EPA violations on record
- 30%
- 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
- 1,360
- County
- Marion
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 20
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MCL | 12 | 2005 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 10 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2012 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2017 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Valley Springs Waterworks has 44 recorded EPA violations, 53% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 46% carry more. 30% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 44), and it ranks #9,798 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)
44 Around the middle fewer violations than 46% 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 Valley Springs Waterworks
13 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000065.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
44 violations · 3,400 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 with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Valley Springs Waterworks
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Arkansas compares on the same EPA violation measures. Arkansas systems
- Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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