Community Water System · PWS AR0000197
Altus Waterworks
Operator location Altus, Arkansas - 8% of 25 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,820 served per SDWIS.
- 1,820
- People served (this PWS)
- 25
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Altus Waterworks standing, mid SDWIS violation third
8% of 25 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,337 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Altus Waterworks lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,820 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,337 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #266 of 514
- Population · AR
- 25
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- 764
- County
- Franklin
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 8
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2011 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 2 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2021 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2016 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 1 | 1997 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Altus Waterworks has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 25), and it ranks #14,337 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)
25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% 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 Altus Waterworks
2 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000197.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
25 violations · 1,820 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Altus 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
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