Fort Smith Water Utilities

Water Quality Snapshot: Fort Smith Water Utilities

Fort Smith Water Utilities is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 86,209 residents in Fort Smith, Arkansas (Sebastian County) through 35,693 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 17 total violations for this system , of which 15 (88%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. The most recent violation on record dates to 2017.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Lead and Copper Rule, recorded in 7 violations (TT, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Arkansas, EPA tracks 1,016 public water systems serving 3,049,400 people, with 53,437 cumulative violations and 21,598 health-based violations on record. About 94% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 52.6 violations. Statewide, 57 of 172 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (33.1%).

Fort Smith Water Utilities's 17 violations sit below the Arkansas average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.