Pocatello City Of

Water Quality Snapshot: Pocatello City Of

Pocatello City Of is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 58,231 residents in Pocatello, Idaho (Bannock County) through 18,712 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 961 total violations for this system , of which 9 (1%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 948 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Endrin, recorded in 30 violations (MR). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Idaho, EPA tracks 2,005 public water systems serving 1,743,912 people, with 104,850 cumulative violations and 19,965 health-based violations on record. About 96% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 52.3 violations. Statewide, 40 of 60 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (66.7%).

Pocatello City Of's 961 violations sit above the Idaho average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.