Community Water System · PWS ID6210006
Fairview Water Dist
Operator location Preston, Idaho - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 153 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,300 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,300
- People served (this PWS)
- 153
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fairview Water Dist standing, high SDWIS violation third
153 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #17,134 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fairview Water Dist sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (153), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,300 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #17,134 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #103 of 249
- Population · ID
- 153
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 300
- County
- Franklin
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 140
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 57 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 33 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 26 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 2013 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Groundwater Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2015 |
| Chlorine | MR | 3 | 2022 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Nickel | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1993 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1993 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fairview Water Dist has 153 recorded EPA violations, 81% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 19% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 153), and it ranks #17,134 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)
153 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
SDWIS compliance record for Fairview Water Dist
153 violations on record for ID6210006; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
153 violations · 1,300 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 Fairview Water Dist
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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