Community Water System · PWS OR4100060
John Day Water District
Operator location Astoria, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 350 people served; 65 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 350
- People served (this PWS)
- 65
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
John Day Water District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
350 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 5% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
John Day Water District lands in the middle third by violation volume (65), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 5% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 65
- Total EPA violations on record
- 5%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 350
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 101
- County
- Clatsop
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| TTHM | MR | 15 | 2022 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 15 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 8 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2003 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 1 | 2025 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | TT | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
John Day Water District has 65 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 5% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 65), 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)
65 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 John Day Water District
EPA SDWIS lists 350 people served and 101 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
65 violations · 350 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 John Day Water District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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