Community Water System · PWS AR0000889
Southwest Arkansas Water System
Operator location Hope, Arkansas - 86% of 97 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,335 served per SDWIS.
- 2,335
- People served (this PWS)
- 97
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 83
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Southwest Arkansas Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
86% of 97 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 86% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,463 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Southwest Arkansas Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (97), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,335 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 86% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #12,463 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #221 of 514
- Population · AR
- 97
- Total EPA violations on record
- 86%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 892
- County
- Hempstead
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 82
- Monitoring Violations
- 4
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 77 | 2020 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 5 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 5 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2013 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2016 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Southwest Arkansas Water System has 97 recorded EPA violations, 73% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 86% of this system's own violations are health-based (83 of 97), and it ranks #12,463 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)
97 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Southwest Arkansas Water System
83 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000889.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
97 violations · 2,335 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
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 Southwest Arkansas Water System
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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