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Community Water System · PWS AR0000913

Benton County Water Authority5

Operator location Lowell, Arkansas - 11% of 36 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,813 served per SDWIS.

1,813
People served (this PWS)
36
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Benton County Water Authority5 standing, mid SDWIS violation third

11% of 36 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,374 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Benton County Water Authority5 lands in the middle third by violation volume (36), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,813 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,374 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#269 of 514
Population · AR
36
Total EPA violations on record
11%
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
725
County
Benton
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
4
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 17 2011
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 7 2012
Chlorine MR 5 2005
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2011
Revised Total Coliform Rule RPT 2 2018

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Benton County Water Authority5 has 36 recorded EPA violations, 47% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 52% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 36), and it ranks #14,374 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)

36 Lower than most fewer violations than 52% 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 Benton County Water Authority5

4 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AR0000913.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

36 violations · 1,813 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 Benton County Water Authority5

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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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater