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)
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.
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 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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