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Community Water System · PWS OR4100164

Cannon Beach, City Of

Operator location Cannon Beach, Oregon - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 79 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,710 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

1,710
People served (this PWS)
79
EPA violations (this PWS)
3
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cannon Beach, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

79 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 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #14,842 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Cannon Beach, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (79), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,710 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#14,842 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#189 of 373
Population · OR
79
Total EPA violations on record
4%
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
1,813
County
Clatsop
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
1
Monitoring Violations
66
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 29 2023
COLIPHAGE MR 9 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 8 2008
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 5 2009
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 4 2025
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 2 1998
TTHM MR 2 2010
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 2 2010
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 2008
Barium MR 1 1979
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1976
Selenium MR 1 1979
Mercury MR 1 1979
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1976
Arsenic MR 1 1979
Nitrate MR 1 1979
Chromium MR 1 1979
Coliform (TCR) MCL 1 1994
Cadmium MR 1 1979
Fluoride MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cannon Beach, City Of has 79 recorded EPA violations, 68% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 32% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 79), and it ranks #14,842 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)

79 Around the middle fewer violations than 32% 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 Cannon Beach, City Of

79 violations on record for OR4100164; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

79 violations · 1,710 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.

4 peers

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 Cannon Beach, City Of

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater