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Community Water System · PWS AR0000243

Dierks Water Works

Operator location Dierks, Arkansas - 54% of 37 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,317 served per SDWIS.

1,317
People served (this PWS)
37
EPA violations (this PWS)
20
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Dierks Water Works standing, mid SDWIS violation third

54% of 37 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 54% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,028 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Dierks Water Works lands in the middle third by violation volume (37), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,317 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 54% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,028 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#326 of 514
Population · AR
37
Total EPA violations on record
54%
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
543
County
Howard
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
11
Treatment Tech Violations
20

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 18 2016
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 5 2009
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 3 2009
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 2009
Lead and Copper Rule TT 2 1998
Public Notice Other 1 2016
Surface Water Treatment Rule Other 1 1997
Coliform (Pre-TCR) Other 1 1990
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Dierks Water Works has 37 recorded EPA violations, 48% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 51% carry more. 54% of this system's own violations are health-based (20 of 37), and it ranks #17,028 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)

37 Lower than most fewer violations than 51% 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 Dierks Water Works

20 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000243.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

37 violations · 1,317 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.

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 Dierks Water Works

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