Community Water System · PWS WA5354350
Metaline Water Dept
Operator location Metaline, Washington - 35% of 369 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); surface water source; 193 served per SDWIS.
- 193
- People served (this PWS)
- 369
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 128
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Metaline Water Dept standing, high SDWIS violation third
35% of 369 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
Metaline Water Dept sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (369), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is smaller (193; 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.
- 369
- Total EPA violations on record
- 35%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 193
- 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
- 84
- County
- Pend Oreille
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 0
- Monitoring Violations
- 223
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 128
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | TT | 128 | 2010 |
| Surface Water Treatment Rule | MR | 105 | 2006 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 34 | 2015 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 8 | 2025 |
| Barium | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Cadmium | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Chromium | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| CYANIDE | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Mercury | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Nickel | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Selenium | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Beryllium, Total | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Antimony, Total | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Arsenic | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Thallium, Total | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Fluoride | MR | 3 | 2004 |
| Pentachlorophenol | MR | 2 | 2002 |
| Dalapon | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Dinoseb | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| 2,4,5-TP | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| OXAMYL | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Aldicarb sulfone | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Aldicarb | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Endrin | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| BHC-GAMMA | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Methoxychlor | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Toxaphene | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Simazine | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| Atrazine | MR | 1 | 2002 |
| LASSO | MR | 1 | 2002 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Metaline Water Dept has 369 recorded EPA violations, 93% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 7% carry more. 35% of this system's own violations are health-based (128 of 369), 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)
369 Higher than most more violations than 93% 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 Metaline Water Dept
128 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WA5354350.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
369 violations · 193 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.
What to do with Metaline Water Dept
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