Community Water System · PWS AZ0413023
Cordes Lakes Water Company
Operator location Litchfield Park, Arizona - larger served population (> 3,309) at 4,257 people served; 107 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 4,257
- People served (this PWS)
- 107
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cordes Lakes Water Company standing, high SDWIS violation third
4,257 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 3% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #8,521 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cordes Lakes Water Company sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (107), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is large (4,257; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 3% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #8,521 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #125 of 413
- Population · AZ
- 107
- Total EPA violations on record
- 3%
- 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
- 1,703
- County
- Yavapai
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 83
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 31 | 2017 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 15 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 2014 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 8 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 7 | 2011 |
| TTHM | MR | 7 | 2011 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 4 | 1998 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 1999 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2017 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 3 | 1998 |
| E. COLI | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 2 | 2018 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 1 | 2017 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 2006 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cordes Lakes Water Company has 107 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 3% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 107), and it ranks #8,521 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)
107 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% 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 Cordes Lakes Water Company
EPA SDWIS lists 4,257 people served and 1,703 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
107 violations · 4,257 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 similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Cordes Lakes 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
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