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Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS OR4195356

Baker Co Pks - Holcomb

Operator location Baker City, Oregon - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 26 people served; 34 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.

26
People served (this PWS)
34
EPA violations (this PWS)
3
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Baker Co Pks - Holcomb standing, mid SDWIS violation third

26 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).

The verdict

Baker Co Pks - Holcomb lands in the middle third by violation volume (34), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (26; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

34
Total EPA violations on record
9%
Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
26
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
Local
Connections
3
County
Baker
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
3
Monitoring Violations
28
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Revised Total Coliform Rule MON 14 2024
Coliform (TCR) MR 5 2015
Nitrate MR 4 2011
Coliform (TCR) MCL 3 2010
COLIPHAGE MR 3 2016
E. COLI MR 2 2010
Public Notice Other 2 2010

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Baker Co Pks - Holcomb has 34 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 54% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (3 of 34), 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)

34 Lower than most fewer violations than 54% 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 Baker Co Pks - Holcomb

EPA SDWIS lists 26 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

34 violations · 26 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Baker Co Pks - Holcomb

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