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Community Water System · PWS OR4100172

Cascade Locks, City Of

Operator location Cascade Locks, Oregon - 14% of 72 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); groundwater source; 1,398 served per SDWIS.

1,398
People served (this PWS)
72
EPA violations (this PWS)
10
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Cascade Locks, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

14% of 72 recorded violations are health-based - middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 14% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,625 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Cascade Locks, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (72), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,398 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 14% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,625 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#212 of 373
Population · OR
72
Total EPA violations on record
14%
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
599
County
Hood River
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
2
Monitoring Violations
59
Treatment Tech Violations
8

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 10 2014
Lead and Copper Rule MR 9 2022
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 9 2025
Lead and Copper Rule TT 8 2022
COLIPHAGE MR 8 2023
Combined Uranium MR 7 2022
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 4 2022
Nitrate MR 3 2014
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 3 2022
Coliform (TCR) MCL 2 1999
Asbestos MR 2 2002
TTHM MR 2 2016
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 2 2016
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 1 2025

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Cascade Locks, City Of has 72 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 72), and it ranks #16,625 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)

72 Around the middle fewer violations than 34% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Cascade Locks, City Of

10 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100172.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

72 violations · 1,398 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Cascade Locks, City Of

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