Community Water System · PWS AZ0402061
Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport
Operator location Douglas, Arizona - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 172 EPA violations; groundwater source; 2,600 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 2,600
- People served (this PWS)
- 172
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport standing, high SDWIS violation third
172 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 8% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,583 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (172), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,600 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 8% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,583 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #167 of 413
- Population · AZ
- 172
- Total EPA violations on record
- 8%
- 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
- 1
- County
- Cochise
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 117
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 45 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 37 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 31 | 2017 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 9 | 2011 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 6 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 4 | 2022 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1988 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 2 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MCL | 1 | 1982 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1988 |
| E. COLI | MR | 1 | 2010 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport has 172 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 8% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 172), and it ranks #11,583 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)
172 Higher than most more violations than 83% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport
172 violations on record for AZ0402061; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Arizona DEQ, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
172 violations · 2,600 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 Bisbee Douglas Intl Airport
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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