Community Water System · PWS AZ0410188
Desert Water Coop
Operator location Tucson, Arizona - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 150 people served; 121 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 150
- People served (this PWS)
- 121
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Desert Water Coop standing, high SDWIS violation third
150 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Desert Water Coop sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (121), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (150; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 121
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 150
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 51
- County
- Pima
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 83
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 18 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 16 | 2025 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 13 | 2014 |
| E. COLI | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 5 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 4 | 2020 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2019 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 3 | 1991 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1990 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2020 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2001 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2001 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1987 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1987 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Desert Water Coop has 121 recorded EPA violations, 77% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 23% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 121), 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)
121 Higher than most more violations than 77% 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 Desert Water Coop
EPA SDWIS lists 150 people served and 51 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
121 violations · 150 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 Desert Water Coop
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