Community Water System · PWS AR0000804
Whelen Springs Water Dept
Operator location Gurdon, Arkansas - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 559 people served; 9 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 559
- People served (this PWS)
- 9
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Whelen Springs Water Dept standing, low SDWIS violation third
559 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #27,268 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Whelen Springs Water Dept is in the lower third by violation count (9; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is smaller (559; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #27,268 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #486 of 514
- Population · AR
- 9
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- 254
- County
- Clark
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 2
- Monitoring Violations
- 4
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 2002 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 2 | 2007 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2015 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Whelen Springs Water Dept has 9 recorded EPA violations, 17% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 82% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 9), and it ranks #27,268 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)
9 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 82% 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 Whelen Springs Water Dept
EPA SDWIS lists 559 people served and 254 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
9 violations · 559 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Whelen Springs Water Dept
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