Community Water System · PWS MS0650010
Sylvarena Water Association
Operator location Bay Springs, Mississippi - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 721 people served; 595 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 721
- People served (this PWS)
- 595
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 5
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sylvarena Water Association standing, high SDWIS violation third
721 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,923 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Sylvarena Water Association sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (595), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (721; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #23,923 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #731 of 837
- Population · MS
- 595
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- 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
- Public/Private
- Connections
- 273
- County
- Smith
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 509
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combined Uranium | MR | 162 | 2012 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 116 | 2012 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 116 | 2012 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 56 | 2008 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 56 | 2008 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 5 | 2016 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2006 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2008 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sylvarena Water Association has 595 recorded EPA violations, 97% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 3% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 595), and it ranks #23,923 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)
595 Higher than most more violations than 97% 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 Sylvarena Water Association
EPA SDWIS lists 721 people served and 273 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
595 violations · 721 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 with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Sylvarena Water Association
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Mississippi compares on the same EPA violation measures. Mississippi systems
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