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Community Water System · PWS OR4100915

Union, City Of

Operator location Union, Oregon - 36% of 28 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 2,162 served per SDWIS.

2,162
People served (this PWS)
28
EPA violations (this PWS)
10
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Union, City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third

36% of 28 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 36% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #12,983 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Union, City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (28), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is mid-pack at 2,162 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 36% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#12,983 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#160 of 373
Population · OR
28
Total EPA violations on record
36%
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
958
County
Union
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
10
Monitoring Violations
11
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 10 2015
Coliform (TCR) MR 4 2011
Nitrate MR 3 2002
Consumer Confidence Rule Other 2 2023
Lead and Copper Rule MR 1 1994
Public Notice Other 1 2015
Combined Radium (-226 and -228) MR 1 1976
Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U MR 1 1976
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 1 2020

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Union, City Of has 28 recorded EPA violations, 40% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 59% carry more. 36% of this system's own violations are health-based (10 of 28), and it ranks #12,983 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)

28 Lower than most fewer violations than 59% 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 Union, City Of

10 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100915.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

28 violations · 2,162 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Union, 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