Community Water System · PWS OR4100917
Vale, City Of
Operator location Vale, Oregon - 63% of 339 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 1,837 served per SDWIS.
- 1,837
- People served (this PWS)
- 339
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 213
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Vale, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
63% of 339 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 63% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #14,279 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Vale, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (339), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,837 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 63% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #14,279 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #176 of 373
- Population · OR
- 339
- Total EPA violations on record
- 63%
- 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
- 770
- County
- Malheur
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 213
- Monitoring Violations
- 88
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arsenic | MCL | 209 | 2018 |
| Public Notice | Other | 33 | 2018 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 32 | 2010 |
| Arsenic | MR | 19 | 2018 |
| TTHM | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 4 | 2011 |
| COLIPHAGE | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Nitrite | MR | 3 | 2008 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2024 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2023 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Heptachlor epoxide | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Chlordane | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2000 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2017 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2017 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Vale, City Of has 339 recorded EPA violations, 92% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 8% carry more. 63% of this system's own violations are health-based (213 of 339), and it ranks #14,279 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)
339 Higher than most more violations than 92% 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 Vale, City Of
213 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100917.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
339 violations · 1,837 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 Vale, City Of
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