Community Water System · PWS OR4100887
Fairview Water District
Operator location Tillamook, Oregon - 28% of 93 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,920 served per SDWIS.
- 1,920
- People served (this PWS)
- 93
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 26
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Fairview Water District standing, high SDWIS violation third
28% of 93 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 28% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #13,958 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Fairview Water District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (93), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,920 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 28% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #13,958 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #174 of 373
- Population · OR
- 93
- Total EPA violations on record
- 28%
- 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
- 781
- County
- Tillamook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 26
- Monitoring Violations
- 59
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 23 | 2014 |
| Nitrate | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| E. COLI | MR | 13 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 12 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 3 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| 1,2-DIBROMO-3-CHLOROPROPANE | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Endothall | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Diquat | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Toluene | MR | 2 | 2024 |
| Public Notice | Other | 2 | 2014 |
| ETHYLENE DIBROMIDE | MR | 2 | 2005 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Fairview Water District has 93 recorded EPA violations, 72% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 28% of this system's own violations are health-based (26 of 93), and it ranks #13,958 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)
93 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Fairview Water District
26 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100887.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
93 violations · 1,920 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with comparable violation load
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Fairview Water District
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