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Community Water System · PWS WA5364400

Oroville City Of

Operator location Oroville, Washington - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations) with 92 EPA violations; groundwater source; 3,256 served (PWS-level, not municipal population).

3,256
People served (this PWS)
92
EPA violations (this PWS)
19
Health-based (this PWS)
Untested
UCMR5 (this PWS)
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Oroville City Of standing, high SDWIS violation third

92 EPA SDWIS violations on record - upper-third violation load (> 74 violations). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 21% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #10,031 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.

The verdict

Oroville City Of sits in the upper third of the sitemap cohort by violation count (92), so the tables below sample a dense compliance trail rather than a near-clean ledger. Population served is mid-pack at 3,256 (mid served population (≤ 3,309)). Health-based share is 21% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.

#10,031 of 29,740
Population · /systems
#247 of 766
Population · WA
92
Total EPA violations on record
21%
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
Local
Connections
1,732
County
Okanogan
School/Daycare
No
MCL Violations
19
Monitoring Violations
72
Treatment Tech Violations
0

Violation History

Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.

Contaminant Category Count Latest
Coliform (TCR) MCL 19 2004
Endrin MR 2 2014
Toxaphene MR 2 2014
Simazine MR 2 2014
Di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate MR 2 2014
Atrazine MR 2 2014
Heptachlor epoxide MR 2 2014
HEXACHLOROBENZENE MR 2 2014
Benzo(a)pyrene MR 2 2014
Methoxychlor MR 2 2014
Hexachlorocyclopentadiene MR 2 2014
Chlordane MR 2 2014
Coliform (TCR) MR 2 1992
LASSO MR 2 2014
Heptachlor MR 2 2014
Di(2-ethylhexyl) adipate MR 2 2014
BHC-GAMMA MR 2 2014
Nitrate MR 1 2003
Arsenic MR 1 2008
Barium MR 1 2008
Cadmium MR 1 2008
Fluoride MR 1 2008
Mercury MR 1 2008
Beryllium, Total MR 1 2008
Thallium, Total MR 1 2008
1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene MR 1 2008
p-Dichlorobenzene MR 1 2008
Vinyl chloride MR 1 2008
1,1-Dichloroethylene MR 1 2008
1,2-Dichloroethane MR 1 2008

Violation Count vs. the National Corpus

Oroville City Of has 92 recorded EPA violations, 71% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 28% carry more. 21% of this system's own violations are health-based (19 of 92), and it ranks #10,031 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)

92 Around the middle fewer violations than 28% 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 Oroville City Of

92 violations on record for WA5364400; 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

92 violations · 3,256 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.

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Cross-state systems near this population served

Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).

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What to do with Oroville City Of

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