Community Water System · PWS OR4101259
Avion WC - Desert Springs
Operator location Bend, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 130 people served; 67 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 130
- People served (this PWS)
- 67
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Avion WC - Desert Springs standing, mid SDWIS violation third
130 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 13% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Avion WC - Desert Springs lands in the middle third by violation volume (67), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (130; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 13% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 67
- Total EPA violations on record
- 13%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 130
- People served by this PWS (SDWIS)
- N/A
- PFAS compounds detected (UCMR5)
Population ordinals match the sitemap cohort (systems serving 500+, population_served DESC). See methodology · corpus placement.
System Details
- System Type
- Community
- Owner Type
- Private
- Connections
- 55
- County
- Deschutes
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 56
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2015 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Glyphosate | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Heptachlor | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,4-D | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Total Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) | MR | 1 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Avion WC - Desert Springs has 67 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 13% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 67), and it ranks unranked by population served among that same cohort.
EPA violations vs. the national water-system corpus
Public water systems serving 500+ people (EPA SDWIS)
67 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
Population served record for Avion WC - Desert Springs
EPA SDWIS lists 130 people served and 55 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
67 violations · 130 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Avion WC - Desert Springs
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