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Community Water System · PWS OR4100609

Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth

Operator location Pacific City, Oregon - 14% of 36 violations are health-based (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)); surface water source; 1,000 served per SDWIS.

1,000
People served (this PWS)
36
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth standing, mid SDWIS violation third

14% of 36 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 #19,716 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth lands in the middle third by violation volume (36), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,000 (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.

#19,716 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#243 of 373
Population · OR
36
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
1,445
County
Tillamook
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
28
Treatment Tech Violations
2

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 6 2019
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 3 2017
Nitrate MR 3 2020
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MCL 3 2018
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 1998
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 2 2023
TTHM MR 2 2015
Lead and Copper Rule TT 2 2002
Chromium MR 1 1979
Selenium MR 1 1979
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1976
Arsenic MR 1 1979
Barium MR 1 1979
Mercury MR 1 1979
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 2024
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1976
Fluoride MR 1 1979
Cadmium MR 1 1979

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth has 36 recorded EPA violations, 47% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 52% carry more. 14% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 36), and it ranks #19,716 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)

36 Lower than most fewer violations than 52% 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 Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth

5 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100609.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

36 violations · 1,000 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Pacific City Joint Water - San Auth

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

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