Community Water System · PWS WA5399800
Zillah City Of
Operator location Zillah, Washington - larger served population (> 3,309) at 3,518 people served; 55 SDWIS violations on record from groundwater sources.
- 3,518
- People served (this PWS)
- 55
- EPA violations (this PWS)
- 12
- Health-based (this PWS)
- Untested
- UCMR5 (this PWS)
Zillah City Of standing, mid SDWIS violation third
3,518 people served (SDWIS) - larger served population (> 3,309). Corpus terciles use 29,740 systems serving 500+ (the sitemap cohort). Health-based share 22% is middle-third health share (≤ 23%). Population rank #9,571 of 29,740 among systems serving 500+.
The verdict
Zillah City Of lands in the middle third by violation volume (55), large enough for peer comparisons without matching the fleet's heaviest ledgers. Population served is large (3,518; larger served population (> 3,309)), so household exposure scale sits behind the violation mix. Health-based share is 22% (middle-third health share (≤ 23%)). No UCMR5 PFAS test appears for this system in this extract.
- #9,571 of 29,740
- Population · /systems
- #236 of 766
- Population · WA
- 55
- Total EPA violations on record
- 22%
- 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
- 1,206
- County
- Yakima
- School/Daycare
- No
- MCL Violations
- 12
- Monitoring Violations
- 42
- Treatment Tech Violations
- 0
Violation History
Contaminant violations recorded by EPA.
| Contaminant | Category | Count | Latest |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nitrate | MR | 11 | 2022 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MCL | 11 | 2004 |
| Coliform (TCR) | MR | 2 | 1992 |
| 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 |
| 1,1,1-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Carbon tetrachloride | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Trichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,1,2-Trichloroethane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Tetrachloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| CHLOROBENZENE | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Benzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Cadmium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Arsenic | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Chromium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Fluoride | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Mercury | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Barium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| p-Dichlorobenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Toluene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| 1,2-Dichloropropane | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Ethylbenzene | MR | 1 | 2008 |
| Revised Total Coliform Rule | MON | 1 | 2017 |
| Gross Alpha, Excl. Radon and U | MR | 1 | 1979 |
| Selenium | MR | 1 | 1979 |
Violation Count vs. the National Corpus
Zillah City Of has 55 recorded EPA violations, 59% of the 29,740 public water systems serving 500+ people nationwide carry fewer, and 40% carry more. 22% of this system's own violations are health-based (12 of 55), and it ranks #9,571 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)
55 Around the middle fewer violations than 40% 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 Zillah City Of
EPA SDWIS lists 3,518 people served and 1,206 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
55 violations · 3,518 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.
Cross-state systems with similar served population
Nearest cross-state systems by EPA SDWIS population_served (same 500+ sitemap gate).
What to do with Zillah City Of
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