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Non-Transient Non-Community Water System · PWS WA5307597

Packaging Corporation of America

Operator location Wallula, Washington - 34% of 35 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 700 served per SDWIS.

700
People served (this PWS)
35
EPA violations (this PWS)
12
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Packaging Corporation of America standing, mid SDWIS violation third

34% of 35 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 34% is upper-third health share (> 23%). Population rank #24,481 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Packaging Corporation of America lands in the middle third by violation volume (35), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (700; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 34% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#24,481 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#624 of 766
Population · WA
35
Total EPA violations on record
34%
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
Non-Transient Non-Community
Owner Type
Private
Connections
1
County
Walla Walla
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
0
Monitoring Violations
22
Treatment Tech Violations
12

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Surface Water Treatment Rule TT 12 2012
1,1,1-Trichloroethane MR 1 2007
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2007
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 1 2007
Benzene MR 1 2007
Mercury MR 1 2009
Toluene MR 1 2007
CHLOROBENZENE MR 1 2007
1,2-Dichloropropane MR 1 2007
Vinyl chloride MR 1 2007
Trichloroethylene MR 1 2007
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2007
cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2007
o-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2007
Carbon tetrachloride MR 1 2007
Styrene MR 1 2007
Ethylbenzene MR 1 2007
Coliform (TCR) MR 1 1998
DICHLOROMETHANE MR 1 2007
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 2007
1,1,2-Trichloroethane MR 1 2007
Tetrachloroethylene MR 1 2007
trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2007

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Packaging Corporation of America has 35 recorded EPA violations, 46% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 53% carry more. 34% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 35), and it ranks #24,481 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)

35 Lower than most fewer violations than 53% of 29,740 water systems

the national water-system corpus, bucketed by value

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Source EPA SDWIS · 2026-05-15

Health-based violations on Packaging Corporation of America

12 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WA5307597.

Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water

Nationwide peers

35 violations · 700 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.

What to do with Packaging Corporation of America

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Data sourced from EPA SDWIS and UCMR5 PFAS monitoring data. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainWater