WOODWARD CO RWD #2

Water Quality Snapshot: WOODWARD CO RWD #2

WOODWARD CO RWD #2 is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 920 residents in WOODWARD, Oklahoma (Woodward County) through 508 service connections. Its water is drawn from groundwater sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 323 total violations for this system , of which 108 (33%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 185 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2024.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Nitrate, recorded in 91 violations (MCL, health-based). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

Across Oklahoma, EPA tracks 1,262 public water systems serving 3,699,452 people, with 336,706 cumulative violations and 113,804 health-based violations on record. About 98% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 266.8 violations. WOODWARD CO RWD #2's 323 violations sit above the Oklahoma average. Statewide, 101 of 166 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (60.8%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.