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Community Water System · PWS AR0000327

Magazine Waterworks

Operator location Magazine, Arkansas - 59% of 73 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,000 served per SDWIS.

1,000
People served (this PWS)
73
EPA violations (this PWS)
43
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Magazine Waterworks standing, mid SDWIS violation third

59% of 73 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 59% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #19,470 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Magazine Waterworks lands in the middle third by violation volume (73), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,000 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 59% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#19,470 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#373 of 514
Population · AR
73
Total EPA violations on record
59%
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
399
County
Logan
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
36
Monitoring Violations
12
Treatment Tech Violations
7

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 33 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 10 2022
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 7 2021
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 4 2022
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2011
Surface Water Treatment Rule Other 2 1995
Public Notice Other 2 2021
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2021
Chlorine MR 1 2019
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Magazine Waterworks has 73 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 59% of this system's own violations are health-based (43 of 73), and it ranks #19,470 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)

73 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Magazine Waterworks

43 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000327.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

73 violations · 1,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Magazine 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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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