Community Water System · PWS OR4100968
Yamhill, City Of
Operator location Yamhill, Oregon - 53% of 112 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 1,130 served per SDWIS.
- 1,130
- People served (this PWS)
- 112
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 59
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Yamhill, City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third
53% of 112 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 53% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #18,373 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Yamhill, City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (112), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,130 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 53% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #18,373 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #237 of 373
- Population · OR
- 112
- Total EPA violations on record
- 53%
- 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
- 616
- County
- Yamhill
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 50
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 59
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 59 | 2001 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 14 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2024 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 1997 |
| Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 4 | 2024 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1994 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1976 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2023 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Yamhill, City Of has 112 recorded EPA violations, 75% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 24% carry more. 53% of this system's own violations are health-based (59 of 112), and it ranks #18,373 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)
112 Higher than most more violations than 75% 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 Yamhill, City Of
59 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4100968.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
112 violations · 1,130 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 Yamhill, City Of
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