Community Water System · PWS WA5394170
Welchs Water Association
Operator location Port Orchard, Washington - 33% of 42 violations are health-based (upper-third health share (> 23%)); groundwater source; 69 served per SDWIS.
- 69
- People served (this PWS)
- 42
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 14
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Welchs Water Association standing, mid SDWIS violation third
33% of 42 recorded violations are health-based - upper-third health share (> 23%). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 33% is upper-third health share (> 23%).
The verdict
Welchs Water Association lands in the middle third by violation volume (42), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is smaller (69; smaller served population (≤ 999)), so each violation row represents a compact service footprint. Health-based share is 33% - most of this ledger is MCL or treatment-technique exceedance. No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- 42
- Total EPA violations on record
- 33%
- Health-based (MCL / treatment failure)
- 69
- 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
- 23
- County
- King
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 14
- Monitoring Violations
- 22
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 14 | 2011 |
| Arsenic | MR | 7 | 2007 |
| Diquat | MR | 5 | 2005 |
| Consumer Confidence Rule | Other | 4 | 2023 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 1 | 1992 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Nitrate | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Welchs Water Association has 42 recorded EPA violations, 52% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 48% carry more. 33% of this system's own violations are health-based (14 of 42), 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)
42 Around the middle fewer violations than 48% 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 Welchs Water Association
14 health-based rows in the tables above map to MCL or treatment-technique exceedances, verify each contaminant code on the federal SDWIS report for WA5394170.
Sources: EPA SDWIS · Washington State Department of Health, Office of Drinking Water
Nationwide peers
42 violations · 69 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 Welchs Water Association
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