Community Water System · PWS AZ0404030
Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo
Operator location Payson, Arizona - 0% of 286 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); groundwater source; 976 served per SDWIS.
- 976
- People served (this PWS)
- 286
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 286 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Population rank #20,078 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (286), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (976; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,078 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #278 of 413
- Population · AZ
- 286
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- 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
- 419
- County
- Gila
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 263
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 27 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 10 | 2016 |
| Endothall | MR | 5 | 2001 |
| Nitrate | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2013 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Styrene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Barium | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Chromium | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Fluoride | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2006 |
| Mercury | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Selenium | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Arsenic | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2002 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 4 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo has 286 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 286), and it ranks #20,078 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)
286 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo
1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for AZ0404030.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Arizona DEQ, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
286 violations · 976 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Payson Water - Mesa de Caballo
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