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Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company

Operator location Tucson, Arizona - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 169 people served; 165 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

169
People served (this PWS)
165
EPA violations (this PWS)
7
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third

169 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (165), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (169; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

165
Total EPA violations on record
4%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
169
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
Private
Connections
59
County
Santa Cruz
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
5
Monitoring Violations
127
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 29 2024
Combined Uranium MR 24 2024
Public Notice Other 9 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2010
Chlorine MR 6 2019
Combined Uranium MCL 5 2012
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 5 2019
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2019
Nitrate MR 3 2002
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 2 2001
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2001
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2001
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 2 2001
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 2 2001
Carbon tetrachloride MR 2 2001
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 2 2001
CHLOROBENZENE MR 2 2001
Benzene MR 2 2001
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 2 2013
Radium-228 MR 2 2013
Radium-226 MR 2 2013
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS RPT 2 2024
LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS TT 2 2024
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2001
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 2 2001
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 2 2001
Tetrachloroethylene MR 2 2001
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 2 2001
Trichloroethylene MR 2 2001
Toluene MR 2 2001

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company has 165 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 165), 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)

165 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Sonoita Valley (South) Water Company

EPA SDWIS lists 169 people served and 59 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

165 violations · 169 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.

4 peers

What to do with Sonoita Valley Water Company

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
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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