Community Water System · PWS ID3370007
Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist
Operator location Bruneau, Idaho - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 220 people served; 152 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 220
- People served (this PWS)
- 152
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 34
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist standing, high SDWIS violation third
220 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (152), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (220; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 152
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 220
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 86
- County
- Owyhee
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 28
- Monitoring Violations
- 114
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 6
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chlorine | MR | 45 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 24 | 2015 |
| Fluoride | MCL | 19 | 2007 |
| E. COLI | MR | 9 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 8 | 2019 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 6 | 2013 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 5 | 2023 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2012 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2016 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2003 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 3 | 2019 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1995 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 2004 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2012 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 1996 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist has 152 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (34 of 152), 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)
152 Higher than most more violations than 81% 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 Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist
EPA SDWIS lists 220 people served and 86 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
152 violations · 220 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.
What to do with Bruneau Water and Sewer Dist
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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