Community Water System · PWS OR4100063
Wickiup Water District
Operator location Astoria, Oregon - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 306 EPA violations; surface water source; 1,630 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,630
- People served (this PWS)
- 306
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 18
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Wickiup Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
306 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 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #15,204 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Wickiup Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (306), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,630 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #15,204 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #194 of 373
- Population · OR
- 306
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 653
- County
- Clatsop
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 278
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 29 | 2023 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 19 | 2013 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 14 | 1996 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 12 | 2023 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 6 | 2019 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 5 | 2019 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Toluene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Styrene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Benzene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 4 | 2019 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 1992 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Wickiup Water District has 306 recorded EPA violations, 91% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 9% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (18 of 306), and it ranks #15,204 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)
306 Higher than most more violations than 91% 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 Wickiup Water District
306 violations on record for OR4100063; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
306 violations · 1,630 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Wickiup Water District
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