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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS OR4190958

Big Lake Youth Camp

Operator location Sisters, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 325 people served; 244 SDWIS violations on record from surface water sources.

325
People served (this PWS)
244
EPA violations (this PWS)
27
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Big Lake Youth Camp standing, high SDWIS violation third

325 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 11% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Big Lake Youth Camp sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (244), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (325; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 11% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

244
Total EPA violations on record
11%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
325
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
Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Federal
Connections
20
County
Linn
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
213
Treatment Tech Violations
27

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 189 2023
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 27 2023
Coliform (TCR) MR 13 2011
Nitrate MR 7 2007
Interim Enhanced Surface Water Treatment Rule MR 3 2014
Public Notice Other 1 2013
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 1 2018

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Big Lake Youth Camp has 244 recorded EPA violations, 88% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 12% carry more. 11% of this system's own violations are health-based (27 of 244), 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)

244 Higher than most more violations than 88% 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 Big Lake Youth Camp

EPA SDWIS lists 325 people served and 20 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

244 violations · 325 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.

4 peers

What to do with Big Lake Youth Camp

Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.

  • See how every tracked system in Oregon compares on the same EPA violation measures. Oregon systems
  • Check whether PFAS was detected at this system under UCMR5 testing. PFAS guide
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EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 figures are informational only, not a substitute for a certified lab test of your own tap water.

Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater