SW LINCOLN CO WATER PUD

Water Quality Snapshot: SW LINCOLN CO WATER PUD

SW LINCOLN CO WATER PUD is a local-owned community water system that delivers drinking water to 3,000 residents in WALDPORT, Oregon (Lincoln County) through 1,362 service connections. Its water is drawn from surface water sources. EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System records 225 total violations for this system , of which 6 (3%) are health-based — meaning a contaminant exceeded an EPA Maximum Contaminant Level or a required treatment technique failed. A further 216 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 110 violations (MR). This system has not yet been sampled under EPA's UCMR5 PFAS monitoring program, so no PFAS detection data is available here.

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. SW LINCOLN CO WATER PUD's 225 violations sit above the Oregon average. Statewide, 30 of 125 UCMR5-tested systems have reported PFAS detections (24%). All figures above are sourced directly from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 public data releases and are updated as EPA publishes new reporting cycles.