Community Water System · PWS WA5324163
Evergreen Shores
Operator location Tacoma, Washington - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations) with 11 EPA violations; groundwater source; 1,329 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).
- 1,329
- People served (this PWS)
- 11
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 1
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Evergreen Shores standing, low SDWIS violation third
11 EPA SDWIS violations on record - lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 9% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #16,972 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Evergreen Shores is in the lower third by violation count (11; lower-third violation load (≤ 21 violations)). A low count does not mean the system is unmonitored - monitoring and reporting violations still appear in SDWIS. Population served is mid-pack at 1,329 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 9% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #16,972 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #439 of 766
- Population · WA
- 11
- Total EPA violations on record
- 9%
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 413
- County
- Thurston
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 1
- Monitoring Violations
- 9
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 1 | 2020 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 1 | 2005 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Evergreen Shores has 11 recorded EPA violations, 19% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 79% carry more. 9% of this system's own violations are health-based (1 of 11), and it ranks #16,972 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)
11 Among the lowest violation counts fewer violations than 79% 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 Evergreen Shores
11 violations on record for WA5324163; use EPA SDWIS to confirm return-to-compliance dates and monitoring categories.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
11 violations · 1,329 served: nearest cross-state SDWIS matches.
Cross-state systems with similarly light violation ledgers
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 Evergreen Shores
Use this system's EPA-reported record as a starting filter, not a final verdict.
- See how every tracked system in Washington compares on the same EPA violation measures. Washington systems
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