Sweet Home, City Of

Water Quality Snapshot: Sweet Home, City Of

Sweet Home, City Of is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 10,322 residents in Sweet Home, Oregon (Linn County) through 3,185 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 340 total violations for this system , of which 207 (61%) are health-based, meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 127 monitoring and reporting violations are on file. The most recent violation on record dates to 2025.

The most frequently cited contaminant at this system is Surface Water Treatment Rule, recorded in 206 violations (TT, health-based). This system was sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program and no PFAS compounds were detected above the minimum reporting level.

Across Oregon, EPA tracks 2,518 public water systems serving 4,005,242 people, with 206,659 cumulative violations and 20,339 health-based violations on record. About 99% of systems in the state carry at least one violation, and state-wide the average per system is 82.1 violations. Statewide, 30 of 125 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (24%).

Sweet Home, City Of's 340 violations sit above the Oregon average.

All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.