Community Water System · PWS OR4105200
Rt 53 Water Inc
Operator location Wheller, Oregon - 0% of 203 violations are health-based (lower-third health share (≤ 1%)); surface water source; 80 served per SDWIS.
- 80
- People served (this PWS)
- 203
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Rt 53 Water Inc standing, high SDWIS violation third
0% of 203 recorded violations are health-based - lower-third health share (≤ 1%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 0% is lower-third health share (≤ 1%).
The verdict
Rt 53 Water Inc sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (203), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (80; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is only 0% - almost all of this trail is monitoring or reporting. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 203
- Total EPA violations on record
- 0%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 80
- 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
- 27
- County
- Tillamook
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 152
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 1
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 78 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 58 | 2014 |
| Nitrate | MR | 7 | 2004 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 4 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 1 | 2002 |
| TTHM | MR | 1 | 2019 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 1 | 2019 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Rt 53 Water Inc has 203 recorded EPA violations, 86% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 14% carry more. 0% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 203), 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)
203 Higher than most more violations than 86% 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 Rt 53 Water Inc
1 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for OR4105200.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
203 violations · 80 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.
What to do with Rt 53 Water Inc
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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