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Community Water System · PWS MS0810007

Town of Oakland

Operator location Oakland, Mississippi - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 579 people served; 774 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

579
People served (this PWS)
774
EPA violations (this PWS)
6
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Town of Oakland standing, high SDWIS violation third

579 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 #26,891 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Town of Oakland sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (774), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (579; 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.

#26,891 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#785 of 837
Population · MS
774
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
Local
Connections
278
County
Yalobusha
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
724
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Combined Uranium MR 210 2012
Radium-228 MR 137 2012
Radium-226 MR 137 2012
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 77 2008
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 77 2008
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 17 2014
Chlorine MR 14 2009
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2004
Public Notice Other 4 2008
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 3 2015
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2015
Vinyl chloride MR 3 2015
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2015
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 3 2015
Trichloroethylene MR 3 2015
Tetrachloroethylene MR 3 2015
Benzene MR 3 2015
Toluene MR 3 2015
Ethylbenzene MR 3 2015
Styrene MR 3 2015
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 3 2015
Carbon tetrachloride MR 3 2015
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 3 2015
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2015
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 3 2015
CHLOROBENZENE MR 3 2015
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 3 2015
Xylenes, Total MR 3 2015
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 3 2015
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 3 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Town of Oakland has 774 recorded EPA violations, 98% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 2% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 774), and it ranks #26,891 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)

774 Higher than most more violations than 98% 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 Town of Oakland

EPA SDWIS lists 579 people served and 278 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

774 violations · 579 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.

4 peers

Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Town of Oakland

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
  • Find and compare another public water system by name or PWSID. Search systems

EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater