Community Water System · PWS FL2621102
Big Bend Water Authority
Operator location Steinhatchee, Florida - 60% of 333 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 2,700 served per SDWIS.
- 2,700
- People served (this PWS)
- 333
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 199
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Big Bend Water Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third
60% of 333 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 60% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #11,352 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Big Bend Water Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (333), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,700 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 60% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #11,352 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #433 of 905
- Population · FL
- 333
- Total EPA violations on record
- 60%
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 1,800
- County
- Taylor
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 143
- Monitoring Violations
- 106
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 56
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 80 | 2015 |
| TTHM | MCL | 56 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 56 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 16 | 2006 |
| TTHM | MR | 11 | 2023 |
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2022 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2008 |
| Selenium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Fluoride | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Chromium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Barium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Arsenic | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Cadmium | MR | 8 | 1988 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 1 | 2023 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Big Bend Water Authority has 333 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 60% of this system's own violations are health-based (199 of 333), and it ranks #11,352 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)
333 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Big Bend Water Authority
199 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for FL2621102.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Drinking Water Program
Nationwide peers
333 violations · 2,700 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 near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Big Bend Water Authority
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