Community Water System · PWS UTAH21009
Joseph Town
Operator location Joseph, Utah - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 350 people served; 165 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 350
- People served (this PWS)
- 165
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 7
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Joseph Town standing, high SDWIS violation third
350 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 4% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Joseph Town sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (165), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 4% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 165
- Total EPA violations on record
- 4%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 350
- 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
- Local
- Connections
- 189
- County
- Sevier
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 5
- Monitoring Violations
- 105
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 2
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 18 | 2017 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2010 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 12 | 2025 |
| Nitrate | MR | 8 | 2024 |
| Arsenic | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| Barium | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| Cadmium | MR | 5 | 1996 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MCL | 5 | 2018 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 3 | 2006 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 1996 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2017 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2009 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 2 | 1999 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 2 | 1996 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Xylenes, Total | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Joseph Town has 165 recorded EPA violations, 82% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 17% carry more. 4% of this system's own violations are health-based (7 of 165), 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)
165 Higher than most more violations than 82% 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 Joseph Town
EPA SDWIS lists 350 people served and 189 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
165 violations · 350 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 Joseph Town
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