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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS OR4195331

Usfs Lobster Creek Cg

Operator location Grants Pass, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 36 people served; 30 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

36
People served (this PWS)
30
EPA violations (this PWS)
5
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Usfs Lobster Creek Cg standing, mid SDWIS violation third

36 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 17% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Usfs Lobster Creek Cg lands in the middle third by violation volume (30), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (36; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 17% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

30
Total EPA violations on record
17%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
36
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
1
County
Curry
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
24
Treatment Tech Violations
5

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Groundwater Rule MR 21 2024
Groundwater Rule TT 5 2023
E. COLI MR 2 2015
Nitrate MR 1 2007
Public Notice Other 1 2015

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Usfs Lobster Creek Cg has 30 recorded EPA violations, 42% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 57% carry more. 17% of this system's own violations are health-based (5 of 30), 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)

30 Lower than most fewer violations than 57% 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 Usfs Lobster Creek Cg

EPA SDWIS lists 36 people served and 1 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.

Sources: EPA SDWIS

Nationwide peers

30 violations · 36 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Usfs Lobster Creek Cg

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