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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS AZ0405311

AZ State Pks Roper Lake

Operator location Safford, Arizona - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 110 people served; 46 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

110
People served (this PWS)
46
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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AZ State Pks Roper Lake standing, mid SDWIS violation third

110 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

AZ State Pks Roper Lake lands in the middle third by violation volume (46), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (110; 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.

46
Total EPA violations on record
13%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
110
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
State
Connections
55
County
Graham
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
6
Monitoring Violations
34
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate MR 10 2021
Coliform (TCR) MR 9 2012
Coliform (TCR) MCL 6 2012
Fluoride MR 3 1990
Chromium MR 2 1990
Arsenic MR 2 1990
Barium MR 2 1990
Mercury MR 2 1990
Selenium MR 2 1990
Cadmium MR 2 1990

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

AZ State Pks Roper Lake has 46 recorded EPA violations, 54% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 45% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 46), 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)

46 Around the middle fewer violations than 45% 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 AZ State Pks Roper Lake

EPA SDWIS lists 110 people served and 55 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

46 violations · 110 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with AZ State Pks Roper Lake

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Arizona compares on the same EPA violation measures. Arizona systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

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