Community Water System · PWS OR4100795
Scio, City Of
Operator location Scio, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 900 people served; 25 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 900
- People served (this PWS)
- 25
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 3
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Scio, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
900 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #21,142 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Scio, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (25), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (900; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #21,142 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #264 of 373
- Population · OR
- 25
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- 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
- 383
- County
- Linn
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 15
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 3
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 2001 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | TT | 3 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 1994 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Scio, City Of has 25 recorded EPA violations, 37% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 62% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 25), and it ranks #21,142 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)
25 Lower than most fewer violations than 62% 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 Scio, City Of
EPA SDWIS lists 900 people served and 383 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
25 violations · 900 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.
Cross-state systems with smaller service footprints
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Scio, City Of
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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