Community Water System · PWS OR4105302
Watsonville Water System
Operator location Coos Bay, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 27 people served; 167 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.
- 27
- People served (this PWS)
- 167
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 2
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Watsonville Water System standing, high SDWIS violation third
27 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 1% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Watsonville Water System sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (167), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (27; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 1% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 167
- Total EPA violations on record
- 1%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 27
- 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
- 10
- County
- Coos
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 164
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 92 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2024 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Combined Uranium | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Combined Radium (-226 and -228) | MR | 4 | 2025 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2025 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Diquat | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Endothall | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Picloram | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Hexachlorocyclopentadiene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| HEXACHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Benzo(a)pyrene | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 1 | 2024 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Watsonville Water System has 167 recorded EPA violations, 83% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 1% of this system's own violations are health-based (2 of 167), 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)
167 Higher than most more violations than 83% 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 Watsonville Water System
EPA SDWIS lists 27 people served and 10 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
167 violations · 27 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 Watsonville Water System
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