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Community Water System · PWS OK3006115

Pittsburg Co. RWD #5

Operator location McAlester, Oklahoma - 80% of 398 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,750 served per SDWIS.

1,750
People served (this PWS)
398
EPA violations (this PWS)
319
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Pittsburg Co. RWD #5 standing, high SDWIS violation third

80% of 398 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 80% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,701 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Pittsburg Co. RWD #5 sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (398), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,750 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 80% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,701 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#272 of 558
Population · OK
398
Total EPA violations on record
80%
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
799
County
Pittsburg
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
319
Monitoring Violations
57
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
TTHM MCL 212 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 95 2025
TTHM MR 21 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 18 2025
Coliform (TCR) MCL 12 2008
Coliform (TCR) MR 11 1998
Lead and Copper Rule MR 7 2024

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Pittsburg Co. RWD #5 has 398 recorded EPA violations, 94% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 6% carry more. 80% of this system's own violations are health-based (319 of 398), and it ranks #14,701 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)

398 Higher than most more violations than 94% 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. RWD #5

319 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OK3006115.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

398 violations · 1,750 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 Pittsburg Co. RWD #5

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