Community Water System · PWS ID2250013
Cottonwood Water Dept
Operator location Cottonwood, Idaho - 31% of 48 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 977 served per SDWIS.
- 977
- People served (this PWS)
- 48
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 15
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cottonwood Water Dept standing, mid SDWIS violation third
31% of 48 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 31% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #20,070 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Cottonwood Water Dept lands in the middle third by violation volume (48), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (977; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 31% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #20,070 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #131 of 249
- Population · ID
- 48
- Total EPA violations on record
- 31%
- 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
- 475
- County
- Idaho
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 15
- Monitoring Violations
- 32
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 15 | 2015 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2007 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 3 | 2019 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2012 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cottonwood Water Dept has 48 recorded EPA violations, 55% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 44% carry more. 31% of this system's own violations are health-based (15 of 48), and it ranks #20,070 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)
48 Around the middle fewer violations than 44% 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 Cottonwood Water Dept
15 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for ID2250013.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
48 violations · 977 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Cottonwood Water Dept
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