Community Water System · PWS UTAH03006
Cove Waterworks
Operator location Cove, Utah - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 60 people served; 280 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 60
- People served (this PWS)
- 280
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 53
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Cove Waterworks standing, high SDWIS violation third
60 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Cove Waterworks sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (280), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (60; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 280
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 60
- 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
- 27
- County
- Cache
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 39
- Monitoring Violations
- 208
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 14
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 35 | 2014 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 27 | 2014 |
| E. COLI | MR | 25 | 2020 |
| Nitrate | MR | 22 | 2023 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 14 | 2006 |
| Groundwater Rule | TT | 11 | 2017 |
| Radium-226 | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Radium-228 | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 9 | 2023 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2024 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 6 | 2012 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 4 | 2025 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 1987 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Benzene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Styrene | MR | 3 | 2021 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 3 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Cove Waterworks has 280 recorded EPA violations, 90% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 10% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (53 of 280), 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)
280 Higher than most more violations than 90% 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 Cove Waterworks
EPA SDWIS lists 60 people served and 27 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
280 violations · 60 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 Cove Waterworks
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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