Community Water System · PWS NN3500264
Buffalo Springs NTUA
Operator location Ft Defiance, Navajo Nation - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 397 people served; 71 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 397
- People served (this PWS)
- 71
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Buffalo Springs NTUA standing, mid SDWIS violation third
397 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Buffalo Springs NTUA lands in the middle third by violation volume (71), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (397; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 71
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 397
- 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
- Native American
- Connections
- 116
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 7
- Monitoring Violations
- 54
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 22 | 2012 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 7 | 2013 |
| Nitrite | MR | 4 | 2011 |
| Stage 2 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproducts Rule | MR | 3 | 2013 |
| Nitrate | MR | 3 | 2011 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 2004 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 1 | 2016 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Buffalo Springs NTUA has 71 recorded EPA violations, 65% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 71), 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)
71 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% 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 Buffalo Springs NTUA
EPA SDWIS lists 397 people served and 116 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
71 violations · 397 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Buffalo Springs NTUA
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Navajo Nation compares on the same EPA violation measures. Navajo Nation systems
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