Community Water System · PWS WA5386200
Sunset Water Association
Operator location Bellingham, Washington - smaller served population (≤ 999) at 174 people served; 67 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 174
- People served (this PWS)
- 67
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 13
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Sunset Water Association standing, mid SDWIS violation third
174 people served (SDWIS) - smaller served population (≤ 999). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 19% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%).
The verdict
Sunset Water Association lands in the middle third by violation volume (67), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (174; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 19% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 67
- Total EPA violations on record
- 19%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 174
- 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
- Private
- Connections
- 99
- County
- Whatcom
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 13
- Monitoring Violations
- 51
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 13 | 2005 |
| Lead and Copper Rule | MR | 12 | 2005 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 10 | 1999 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 3 | 2012 |
| 1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| DICHLOROMETHANE | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| o-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Vinyl chloride | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,1-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Styrene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Sunset Water Association has 67 recorded EPA violations, 64% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 36% carry more. 19% of this system's own violations are health-based (13 of 67), 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)
67 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 Sunset Water Association
EPA SDWIS lists 174 people served and 99 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
67 violations · 174 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 Sunset Water Association
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