Community Water System · PWS OR4100001
Adams Water Dept, City Of
Operator location Adams, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 400 people served; 27 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 400
- People served (this PWS)
- 27
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Adams Water Dept, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
400 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Adams Water Dept, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (27), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (400; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 27
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 400
- 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
- 170
- County
- Umatilla
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 18
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 14 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2011 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 1994 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2023 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Adams Water Dept, City Of has 27 recorded EPA violations, 39% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 60% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 27), 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)
27 Lower than most fewer violations than 60% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Adams Water Dept, City Of
EPA SDWIS lists 400 people served and 170 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
27 violations · 400 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Adams Water Dept, City Of
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