Community Water System · PWS WA5316900
Curlew Water & Sewer District
Operator location Republic, Washington - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 316 people served; 66 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 316
- People served (this PWS)
- 66
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 8
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Curlew Water & Sewer District standing, mid SDWIS violation third
316 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 12% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Curlew Water & Sewer District lands in the middle third by violation volume (66), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (316; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 12% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 66
- Total EPA violations on record
- 12%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 316
- 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
- 59
- County
- Ferry
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 8
- Monitoring Violations
- 52
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 8 | 1996 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 4 | 1999 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2018 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2002 |
| Nitrate | MR | 2 | 2022 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 2 | 2017 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 2 | 2020 |
| Carbofuran | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Aldicarb sulfoxide | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Curlew Water & Sewer District has 66 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 12% of this system's own violations are health-based (8 of 66), 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)
66 Around the middle fewer violations than 36% 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 Curlew Water & Sewer District
EPA SDWIS lists 316 people served and 59 connections for this PWS, confirm the service-area footprint on the federal report before comparing to municipal census totals.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
66 violations · 316 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 Curlew Water & Sewer District
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
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