Community Water System · PWS OR4100368
Helix, City Of
Operator location Helix, Oregon - 32% of 96 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 190 served per SDWIS.
- 190
- People served (this PWS)
- 96
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 31
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Helix, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
32% of 96 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 32% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Helix, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (96), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (190; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 32% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 96
- Total EPA violations on record
- 32%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 190
- 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
- 94
- County
- Umatilla
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 31
- Monitoring Violations
- 56
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 22 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2009 |
| Nitrate | MR | 6 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 6 | 2025 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 6 | 2021 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| Nitrate | MCL | 3 | 1989 |
| COLIPHAGE | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2005 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Helix, City Of has 96 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 27% carry more. 32% of this system's own violations are health-based (31 of 96), 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)
96 Around the middle fewer violations than 27% 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 Helix, City Of
31 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100368.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
96 violations · 190 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.
What to do with Helix, City Of
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