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Community Water System · PWS AR0000606

Watalula Water Ass0ciation

Operator location Ozark, Arkansas - 34% of 68 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,278 served per SDWIS.

2,278
People served (this PWS)
68
EPA violations (this PWS)
23
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Watalula Water Ass0ciation standing, mid SDWIS violation third

34% of 68 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 34% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,616 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Watalula Water Ass0ciation lands in the middle third by violation volume (68), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,278 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 34% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,616 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#224 of 514
Population · AR
68
Total EPA violations on record
34%
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
1,180
County
Johnson
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
23
Monitoring Violations
26
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 23 2009
Coliform (TCR) MR 21 2004
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 5 1996
Coliform (TCR) Other 3 1994

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Watalula Water Ass0ciation has 68 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 35% carry more. 34% of this system's own violations are health-based (23 of 68), and it ranks #12,616 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)

68 Around the middle fewer violations than 35% 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 Watalula Water Ass0ciation

23 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000606.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

68 violations · 2,278 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Watalula Water Ass0ciation

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