Community Water System · PWS OR4100384
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village
Operator location Oxbow, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 75 people served; 39 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 75
- People served (this PWS)
- 39
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village standing, mid SDWIS violation third
75 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village lands in the middle third by violation volume (39), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (75; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 39
- Total EPA violations on record
- 21%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 75
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 27
- County
- Baker
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 27
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 4
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 9 | 2007 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 4 | 2024 |
| Groundwater Rule | MR | 3 | 2018 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 3 | 2018 |
| Arsenic | MCL | 2 | 1999 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 2 | 1993 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 1999 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | TT | 1 | 2002 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2024 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1996 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2020 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Idaho Power-Oxbow Village has 39 recorded EPA violations, 50% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 50% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 39), 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)
39 Lower than most fewer violations than 50% 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 Idaho Power-Oxbow Village
EPA SDWIS lists 75 people served and 27 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
39 violations · 75 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Idaho Power-Oxbow Village
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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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.