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Community Water System · PWS OK2000608

Geary

Operator location Geary, Oklahoma - 46% of 854 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,258 served per SDWIS.

1,258
People served (this PWS)
854
EPA violations (this PWS)
390
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Geary standing, high SDWIS violation third

46% of 854 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 46% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #17,420 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Geary sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (854), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,258 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 46% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#17,420 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#341 of 558
Population · OK
854
Total EPA violations on record
46%
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
640
County
Blaine
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
389
Monitoring Violations
359
Treatment Tech Violations
1

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Nitrate-Nitrite MCL 316 2023
Nitrate MCL 62 1999
Chlorine MR 50 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 27 2010
Nitrate-Nitrite MR 21 2024
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 13 2024
Coliform (TCR) MCL 11 2000
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 11 2024
E. COLI MR 10 2020
Glyphosate MR 10 2024
BHC-GAMMA MR 10 2024
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 9 2025
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 8 2022
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2022
Xylenes, Total MR 8 2022
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2022
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 8 2022
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 8 2022
Carbon tetrachloride MR 8 2022
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 8 2022
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 8 2022
Ethylbenzene MR 8 2022
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 8 2022
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2022
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2022
Tetrachloroethylene MR 8 2022
CHLOROBENZENE MR 8 2022
Styrene MR 8 2022
Toluene MR 8 2022
Benzene MR 8 2022

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Geary has 854 recorded EPA violations, 99% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 1% carry more. 46% of this system's own violations are health-based (390 of 854), and it ranks #17,420 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)

854 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 Geary

390 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OK2000608.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

854 violations · 1,258 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 Geary

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
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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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