Community Water System · PWS UTAH24001
Ballard Water Improvement District
Operator location Altamont, Utah - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 106 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,005 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,005
- People served (this PWS)
- 106
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 6
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Ballard Water Improvement District standing, high SDWIS violation third
106 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 6% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #19,372 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Ballard Water Improvement District sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (106), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 1,005 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 6% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #19,372 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #221 of 321
- Population · UT
- 106
- Total EPA violations on record
- 6%
- 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
- Community
- Owner Type
- Local
- Connections
- 513
- County
- Uintah
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 6
- Monitoring Violations
- 63
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 23 | 2000 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 13 | 2003 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 6 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 4 | 1988 |
| TTHM | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Total Haloacetic Acids (HAA5) | MR | 3 | 2014 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | Other | 3 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | RPT | 3 | 2020 |
| Coliform (TCR) | Other | 3 | 1999 |
| Barium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Chromium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Fluoride | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Mercury | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Selenium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Arsenic | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Cadmium | MR | 2 | 1984 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2023 |
| LEAD AND COPPER RULE REVISIONS | RPT | 1 | 2025 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Ballard Water Improvement District has 106 recorded EPA violations, 74% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 25% carry more. 6% of this system's own violations are health-based (6 of 106), and it ranks #19,372 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)
106 Around the middle fewer violations than 25% of 29,740 water systems
the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value
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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15
SDWIS compliance record for Ballard Water Improvement District
106 violations on record for UTAH24001; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS
Nationwide peers
106 violations · 1,005 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.
Cross-state systems near this population served
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Ballard Water Improvement District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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