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Community Water System · PWS OK1021773

Gore PWA

Operator location Gore, Oklahoma - 82% of 142 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,688 served per SDWIS.

1,688
People served (this PWS)
142
EPA violations (this PWS)
116
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Gore PWA standing, high SDWIS violation third

82% of 142 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 82% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,976 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Gore PWA sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (142), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,688 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 82% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,976 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#277 of 558
Population · OK
142
Total EPA violations on record
82%
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
886
County
Sequoyah
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
45
Monitoring Violations
25
Treatment Tech Violations
71

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 55 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 41 2009
CARBON, TOTAL TT 16 2007
TTHM MR 10 2004
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 10 2004
Coliform (TCR) MCL 4 2001
Lead and Copper Rule MR 4 2024
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Gore PWA has 142 recorded EPA violations, 80% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 20% carry more. 82% of this system's own violations are health-based (116 of 142), and it ranks #14,976 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)

142 Higher than most more violations than 80% 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 Gore PWA

116 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OK1021773.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

142 violations · 1,688 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 near this population served

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

4 peers

What to do with Gore PWA

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Oklahoma compares on the same EPA violation measures. Oklahoma systems
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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