Transient Non-Community · PWSID ARN000235

Alexa Springs Water Company

Serves 25 peopleSurface WaterOwner: PrivateMount Ida, Arkansas
Nothing open that measures the water, but 1 open testing or paperwork violation.

A missed test is not evidence of bad water. It also is not evidence of good water: for that period nobody checked.

On record since 2014: 9 violations. 1 over the limit · 4 treatment lapses · 2 missed or late tests · 2 notices or reports. Most recent began 2021-11-01.

For this year's test results, ask the utility for its annual Consumer Confidence Report. Every community system must publish one.

1Over the limit
4Treatment lapse
2Missed or late test
2Notice or report1 open

More violations on record than 67% of active water systems in Arkansas. Small systems with no staff chemist often rack up missed-test violations; big utilities rarely do.

The record, year by year

200520102014 · Notice or report: 120152016 · Over the limit: 12016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Treatment lapse: 22016 · Notice or report: 12017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Treatment lapse: 22017 · Missed or late test: 120202021 · Missed or late test: 12025
One square = one violation, by the year it began. Empty columns are years with nothing on EPA's record.
11% over the limit · 144% treatment lapse · 422% missed or late test · 222% notice or report · 2

Across Arkansas, 36% of violations are missed or late tests and 15% are water over a limit.

Open now (1)

  1. 2016-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen

Every violation on record

  1. 2021-11-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONBack in compliance
  2. 2017-03-01Surface water treatment (LT2)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  3. 2017-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  4. 2017-02-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMONPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  5. 2016-07-01Revised Total Coliform RuleMCLPeriod ended · no return to compliance on file
  6. 2016-04-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationOpen
  7. 2016-02-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  8. 2016-01-01Surface water treatment (SWTR)Treatment Technique (SWTR and GWR)Period ended · no return to compliance on file
  9. 2014-12-01Public NoticePN Violation for NPDWR ViolationBack in compliance

System details

Population served25
Service connections1
Water sourceSurface Water
System typeTransient Non-Community
OwnerPrivate
StatusActive
CityMount Ida
EPA ZIP on file71957

Areas served

  • Montgomery County

Reading this record

Alexa Springs Water Company is a transient non-community that draws from surface water and serves about 25 people in Mount Ida, Arkansas. Everything above comes from the EPA's Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), where states report every violation by every public water system.

Four kinds of violation. Only one is a measurement of the water: over the limit means a test came back above a legal maximum (an MCL). A treatment lapse means a required protective step was not done, such as disinfection, filtration, fixing a defect an inspector found, or filing a lead-pipe inventory. A missed or late test means a required test was skipped or never reported. That is the most common kind, and the most misread: it does not mean the water was bad, and it does not mean the water was fine. Notices and reports covers public notices and the annual Consumer Confidence Report.

Status. “Back in compliance” means the state recorded a return to compliance. “Period ended” means the violation's compliance period is over but no return to compliance was ever filed, which is common in older records. EPA's federal copy lags state records by months, so call the utility for anything current.