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Community Water System · PWS OR4100276

Elkton, City Of

Operator location Elkton, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 187 people served; 42 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

187
People served (this PWS)
42
EPA violations (this PWS)
4
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elkton, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

187 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 10% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Elkton, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (187; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 10% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

42
Total EPA violations on record
10%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
187
People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
N/A
PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)

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
161
County
Douglas
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
34
Treatment Tech Violations
4

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 10 2023
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 7 2023
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 4 2012
Coliform (TCR) MR 3 1995
Lead and Copper Rule MR 3 2003
Cadmium MR 1 1979
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1976
Mercury MR 1 1979
Arsenic MR 1 1979
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1976
Chromium MR 1 1979
Barium MR 1 1979
Selenium MR 1 1979
Fluoride MR 1 1979
Nitrate MR 1 1979
Long Term 2 Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elkton, City Of has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 10% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 42), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.

EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus

Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)

42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Population served record for Elkton, City Of

EPA SDWIS lists 187 people served and 161 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

42 violations · 187 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elkton, 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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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