Community Water System · PWS OR4100882
Oceanside WD - Cape Meares
Operator location Oceanside, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 170 people served; 63 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 170
- People served (this PWS)
- 63
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 4
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Oceanside WD - Cape Meares standing, mid SDWIS violation third
170 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Oceanside WD - Cape Meares lands in the middle third by violation volume (63), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (170; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 63
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 170
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 225
- County
- Tillamook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 4
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 6 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MCL | 4 | 2019 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| Diquat | MR | 2 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 2 | 2019 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2018 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2018 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2018 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Oceanside WD - Cape Meares has 63 recorded EPA violations, 63% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 37% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (4 of 63), 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)
63 Around the middle fewer violations than 37% 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 Oceanside WD - Cape Meares
EPA SDWIS lists 170 people served and 225 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
63 violations · 170 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 Oceanside WD - Cape Meares
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