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Community Water System · PWS ID2180013

Elk River City Of

Operator location Elk River, Idaho - 36% of 77 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 165 served per SDWIS.

165
People served (this PWS)
77
EPA violations (this PWS)
28
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elk River City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

36% of 77 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 36% is upper-third health share (> 23%).

The verdict

Elk River City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (77), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (165; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 36% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

77
Total EPA violations on record
36%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
165
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
Local
Connections
203
County
Clearwater
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
28
Monitoring Violations
49
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 25 2016
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 15 2018
Chlorine MR 10 2018
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2016
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 6 2018
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 3 2018
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 1995
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2017
TTHM MR 3 2017
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 2004
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elk River City Of has 77 recorded EPA violations, 67% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 36% of this system's own violations are health-based (28 of 77), 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)

77 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Elk River City Of

28 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID2180013.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

77 violations · 165 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elk River City Of

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

  • See how every tracked system in Idaho compares on the same EPA violation measures. Idaho systems
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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