Community Water System · PWS AR0000440
Wickes Waterworks
Operator location Wickes, Arkansas - 15% of 33 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 2,014 served per SDWIS.
- 2,014
- People served (this PWS)
- 33
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wickes Waterworks standing, mid SDWIS violation third
15% of 33 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 15% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #13,477 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wickes Waterworks lands in the middle third by violation volume (33), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,014 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 15% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,477 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #247 of 514
- Population · AR
- 33
- Total EPA violations on record
- 15%
- 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
- 839
- County
- Polk
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 17
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2012 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2016 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 5 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 5 | 2019 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2011 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | Other | 2 | 1993 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 1 | 1995 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wickes Waterworks has 33 recorded EPA violations, 45% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 54% carry more. 15% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 33), and it ranks #13,477 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)
33 Lower than most fewer violations than 54% 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 Wickes Waterworks
5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000440.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
33 violations · 2,014 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 Wickes 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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