Community Water System · PWS AR0000427
Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc
Operator location Proctor, Arkansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 436 people served; 72 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 436
- People served (this PWS)
- 72
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc standing, mid SDWIS violation third
436 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (436; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 72
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 436
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 175
- County
- Poinsett
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 20
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 17 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2006 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2000 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 5 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 5 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 4 | 1998 |
| Public Notice | Other | 4 | 2020 |
| Chlorine | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 72), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
72 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
Population served record for Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc
EPA SDWIS lists 436 people served and 175 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
72 violations · 436 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.
What to do with Heafer-Black Oak Water Assoc
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