Community Water System · PWS AZ0401022
Sanders School District
Operator location Sanders, Arizona - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 350 people served; 164 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 350
- People served (this PWS)
- 164
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 21
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sanders School District standing, high SDWIS violation third
350 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sanders School District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (164), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 164
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 350
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
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
- 100
- County
- Apache
- School/Daycare
- Yes
- MCL Violations
- 15
- Monitoring Violations
- 118
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MR | 32 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 30 | 2015 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 20 | 2024 |
| Combined Uranium | MCL | 14 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 9 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 4 | 2018 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 4 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 1998 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 2 | 2024 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 2 | 2024 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1998 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1990 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1990 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1990 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1990 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1990 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sanders School District has 164 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 18% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (21 of 164), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
164 Higher than most more 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 Sanders School District
EPA SDWIS lists 350 people served and 100 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Arizona DEQ, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
164 violations · 350 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.
What to do with Sanders School District
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