Community Water System · PWS OK1020616
Pittsburg Co. Water Authority
Operator location McAlester, Oklahoma - 69% of 1,559 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 5 served per SDWIS.
- 5
- People served (this PWS)
- 1,559
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1,078
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Pittsburg Co. Water Authority standing, high SDWIS violation third
69% of 1,559 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 69% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Pittsburg Co. Water Authority sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (1,559), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (5; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 69% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 1,559
- Total EPA violations on record
- 69%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 5
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 3
- County
- Pittsburg
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 732
- Monitoring Violations
- 420
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 346
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MCL | 381 | 2018 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MCL | 351 | 2020 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | TT | 335 | 2014 |
| CARBON, TOTAL | MR | 93 | 2021 |
| TTHM | MR | 49 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 45 | 2013 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 38 | 2019 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 29 | 2025 |
| Public Notice | Other | 24 | 2021 |
| Chlorine | MR | 16 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 16 | 2021 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 8 | 2013 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 7 | 2025 |
| Nitrate-Nitrite | MR | 7 | 2023 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 6 | 2002 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 4 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Gross Beta Particle Activity | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2008 |
| Endrin | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Dalapon | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Diquat | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Simazine | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Picloram | MR | 3 | 2024 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 3 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Pittsburg Co. Water Authority has 1,559 recorded EPA violations, 100% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 0% carry more. 69% of this system's own violations are health-based (1,078 of 1,559), 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)
1,559 Higher than most more violations than 99%+ of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Health-based violations on Pittsburg Co. Water Authority
1,078 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OK1020616.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
1,559 violations · 5 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.
What to do with Pittsburg Co. Water Authority
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