Douglas City Of

Water Quality Snapshot: Douglas City Of

Douglas City Of is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 16,656 residents in Douglas, Arizona (Cochise County) through 6,230 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 929 total violations for this system , of which 45 (5%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 850 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate, recorded in 40 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Arizona, EPA tracks 1,493 public water systems serving 7,322,166 people, with 228,944 cumulative violations and 15,663 health-based violations on record. About 98% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 153.3 violations. Statewide, 145 of 152 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (95.4%).

Douglas City Of's 929 violations sit above the Arizona average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.