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Community Water System · PWS OR4100062

Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD

Operator location Astoria, Oregon - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 534 EPA violations; surface water source; 2,580 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

2,580
People served (this PWS)
534
EPA violations (this PWS)
39
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD standing, high SDWIS violation third

534 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 7% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #11,661 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (534), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 2,580 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 7% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#11,661 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#142 of 373
Population · OR
534
Total EPA violations on record
7%
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
1,053
County
Clatsop
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
29
Monitoring Violations
483
Treatment Tech Violations
10

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 132 2025
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 42 2025
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 20 2020
Coliform (TCR) MR 19 2012
TTHM MR 11 2022
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 11 2022
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 8 2003
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 8 2014
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2014
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2014
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 8 2014
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 8 2014
Carbon tetrachloride MR 8 2014
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 8 2014
Tetrachloroethylene MR 8 2014
Styrene MR 8 2014
Xylenes, Total MR 8 2014
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 8 2014
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2014
Vinyl chloride MR 8 2014
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 8 2014
Trichloroethylene MR 8 2014
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 8 2014
Toluene MR 8 2014
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 8 2014
CHLOROBENZENE MR 8 2014
Ethylbenzene MR 8 2014
Benzene MR 8 2014
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 6 2023
Nitrate MR 5 2014

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD has 534 recorded EPA violations, 96% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 4% carry more. 7% of this system's own violations are health-based (39 of 534), and it ranks #11,661 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)

534 Higher than most more violations than 96% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

SDWIS compliance record for Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD

534 violations on record for OR4100062; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

534 violations · 2,580 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.

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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 Youngs River Lewis & Clark WD

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Oregon compares on the same EPA violation measures. Oregon 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