Community Water System · PWS OR4100079
Bay City Water System
Operator location Bay City, Oregon - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 94 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,400 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,400
- People served (this PWS)
- 94
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Bay City Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
94 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 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,586 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Bay City Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (94), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,400 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,586 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #207 of 373
- Population · OR
- 94
- Total EPA violations on record
- 10%
- 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
- 843
- County
- Tillamook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 80
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 5
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 9 | 2025 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 5 | 2000 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2009 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 5 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 4 | 2009 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2011 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 3 | 2025 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Benzene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 2 | 2025 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Styrene | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 2 | 2008 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 2 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Bay City Water System has 94 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 94), and it ranks #16,586 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)
94 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Bay City Water System
94 violations on record for OR4100079; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
94 violations · 1,400 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 Bay City Water System
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