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Community Water System · PWS OR4100626

Pilot Rock, City Of

Operator location Pilot Rock, Oregon - 23% of 73 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,326 served per SDWIS.

1,326
People served (this PWS)
73
EPA violations (this PWS)
17
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Pilot Rock, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

23% of 73 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 23% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #16,985 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Pilot Rock, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (73), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 1,326 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 23% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#16,985 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#216 of 373
Population · OR
73
Total EPA violations on record
23%
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
650
County
Umatilla
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
17
Monitoring Violations
53
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MR 33 2014
Coliform (TCR) MCL 17 2011
Nitrate MR 5 2011
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2024
Heptachlor MR 1 1996
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 1 1996
Simazine MR 1 1996
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 1 2019
E. COLI MR 1 2024
BHC-GAMMA MR 1 1996
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1976
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1976
Benzo(a)pyrene MR 1 1996
Atrazine MR 1 1996
Heptachlor epoxide MR 1 1996
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 1 1996
Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate MR 1 1996
LASSO MR 1 1996
Methoxychlor MR 1 1996

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Pilot Rock, City Of has 73 recorded EPA violations, 66% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 34% carry more. 23% of this system's own violations are health-based (17 of 73), and it ranks #16,985 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)

73 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 Pilot Rock, City Of

17 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100626.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

73 violations · 1,326 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.

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Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

4 peers

What to do with Pilot Rock, 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