Community Water System · PWS WA5309156
Chewelah Water Dept North
Operator location Chewelah, Washington - 35% of 26 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 350 served per SDWIS.
- 350
- People served (this PWS)
- 26
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 9
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Chewelah Water Dept North standing, mid SDWIS violation third
35% of 26 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 35% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Chewelah Water Dept North lands in the middle third by violation volume (26), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (350; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 35% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 26
- Total EPA violations on record
- 35%
- 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
- 197
- County
- Stevens
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 9
- Monitoring Violations
- 11
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 9 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 7 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2021 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 2024 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 1 | 2000 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Chewelah Water Dept North has 26 recorded EPA violations, 38% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 61% carry more. 35% of this system's own violations are health-based (9 of 26), 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)
26 Lower than most fewer violations than 61% 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 Chewelah Water Dept North
9 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WA5309156.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
26 violations · 350 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems near this violation count
Nearest cross-state community systems (500+ served) by total SDWIS violations on record.
What to do with Chewelah Water Dept North
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