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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS OR4191805

Elmira High/Elementary

Operator location Elmira, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 735 people served; 55 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

735
People served (this PWS)
55
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Elmira High/Elementary standing, mid SDWIS violation third

735 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #23,733 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Elmira High/Elementary lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (735; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#23,733 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#300 of 373
Population · OR
55
Total EPA violations on record
22%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Local
Connections
3
County
Lane
School/Daycare
Yes
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
37
Treatment Tech Violations
12

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Lead and Copper Rule MR 25 2024
Lead and Copper Rule TT 12 2022
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2010
Public Notice Other 3 2022
Nitrate MR 2 2002
COLIPHAGE MR 2 2019
Methoxychlor MR 1 2005
Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) MR 1 2020
TTHM MR 1 2020

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Elmira High/Elementary has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 55), and it ranks #23,733 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)

55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Elmira High/Elementary

EPA SDWIS lists 735 people served and 3 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

55 violations · 735 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Elmira High/Elementary

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